Error During PostGIS Install

[Abram Gillespie]

Ryan,

Thank you for all the great info.  I'll be looking into this in the
next few days.

-Abe

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2008, at 20:26, Abram Gillespie wrote:
>
>> I'm getting this when I attempt to install PostGIS:
>>
>> Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd
>>
>> "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_databases_postgis/work/postgis-1.3.1"
>> && make all ICONV_LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib -liconv" " returned error
>> 2
>
> You're trying to install postgis 1.3.1 but the current version in MacPorts
> is 1.3.3. You also have a lot of other outdated ports already installed.
> Please do:
>
>        sudo port sync
>
> followed by
>
>        port outdated
>
> and then please update all your outdated ports (e.g. "sudo port upgrade foo"
> for each outdated port foo).
>
>
>
>> Command output: make -C lwgeom
>> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>> make -C loader
>> /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -g -Wall -I.. -DUSE_ICONV -DUSE_VERSION=82
>> -DPOSTGIS_VERSION='"1.3.1"' shpopen.o dbfopen.o getopt.o shp2pgsql.o
>> -L/opt/local/lib -liconv -o shp2pgsql
>> Undefined symbols:
>>  "_iconv_open", referenced from:
>>      _utf8 in shp2pgsql.o
>>  "_iconv", referenced from:
>>      _utf8 in shp2pgsql.o
>>  "_iconv_close", referenced from:
>>      _utf8 in shp2pgsql.o
>> ld: symbol(s) not found
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[1]: *** [shp2pgsql] Error 1
>> make: *** [loaderdumper] Error 2
>>
>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>>
>> And this is my "port installed" (notice libiconv):
>>  apache2 @2.2.4_1 (active)
>>  apr @1.2.11_0 (active)
>>  apr-util @1.2.10_0 (active)
>>  bison @2.3_2 (active)
>>  bzip2 @1.0.5_0 (active)
>>  curl @7.16.4_0+darwin_8 (active)
>>  db44 @4.4.20_1+darwin_8 (active)
>>  expat @2.0.1_0 (active)
>>  fontconfig @2.5.0_0+macosx (active)
>>  freetype @2.3.5_0 (active)
>>  geos @2.2.3_0+darwin_9 (active)
>>  gettext @0.16.1_0 (active)
>>  ghostscript @8.62_1 (active)
>>  ImageMagick @6.4.1-0_0+q16 (active)
>>  jpeg @6b_2 (active)
>>  libiconv @1.11_6+darwin_8 (active)
>>  libiconv @1.12_0
>
> Is there a particular reason why you have libiconv 1.11_6 active instead of
> the newer 1.12_0? I recommend:
>
>        sudo port deactivate libiconv @1.11_6+darwin_8
>        sudo port activate libiconv @1.12_0
>        sudo port clean --work postgis
>        sudo port install postgis
>
>
>>  libmcrypt @2.5.8_0+darwin_8 (active)
>>  libpng @1.2.20_0+darwin_8 (active)
>>  libxml2 @2.6.29_0 (active)
>>  libxslt @1.1.22_0 (active)
>>  m4 @1.4.10_1 (active)
>>  mhash @0.9.9_0+darwin_8 (active)
>>  mysql5 @5.0.51a_0+server (active)
>>  ncurses @5.6_0+darwin_8 (active)
>>  ncursesw @5.6_0+darwin_8 (active)
>>  openssl @0.9.8e_0+darwin_8 (active)
>>  ossp-uuid @1.6.0_2 (active)
>>  pcre @7.3_0 (active)
>>  php5 @5.2.6_0+apache2+dbase+fastcgi+macosx+mysql5 (active)
>>  pkgconfig @0.22_0 (active)
>>  postgresql82 @8.2.7_0 (active)
>>  postgresql82-server @8.2.7_0 (active)
>>  proj @4.6.0_0 (active)
>>  readline @5.2.007_0 (active)
>>  sqlite3 @3.4.2_0+darwin_8 (active)
>>  tiff @3.8.2_0+darwin_8 (active)
>>  wget @1.10.2_0+darwin_8 (active)
>>  zlib @1.2.3_1 (active)
>>
>>
>> I have postgres 8.2 installed but used to have postgres 8.3 installed.
>>  Could an artifact be getting in the way?  Thanks for any help!
>>
>> -Abe
>> PS - Is it possible to use 8.3 with the PostGIS port?
>
> According to "port info postgis" it requires postgres83, unless you use its
> +postgres82 variant, in which case it requires postgres82.
>
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