Compiling wktraster for PostGIS

[JP Glutting]

I think I found my solution. The  "-k" flag to port when installing a port
keeps the source code (this is not mentioned in the online documentation,
and says only "prevents autoclean" on the man page). I learned how this
works off of this mailing list.

It leaves the source code in your MacPorts installation, so I could run the
install of the wktraster package with this flag:

sudo ./configure
--with-postgis-sources=/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_databases_postgis/work/postgis-1.5.2

Works fine.

I was under the impression that "autoclean" just got rid of the intermediate
stuff, like object files, not all of the source code (like "make clean",
basically, although I admit I don't understand all the ins and outs of
make).

Cheers,
JP

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:37 AM, JP Glutting <jpglutting at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I am trying to compile the wktraster extension for PostGIS 1.5.2, which I
> have installed through MacPorts. I also downloaded and unzipped the source
> code to /opt/local/src/postgis-1.5.2/
>
> Wktraster is an extension that provides the same geometry interface as
> other PostGIS features. It has been included in the official PostGIS project
> as of version 2.0, and is now called "PostGIS Raster", but I need to use it
> now with PostGIS 1.5.2. See http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/WKTRaster
>
> From that page, the recommended way to install PostGIS Raster is to use the
> KyngKaos binaries, which is not a bad option, but I don't want to switch
> back and forth between systems unless I absolutely have to, and I have
> already compiled PL/R into this installation of Postgres, so I don't want to
> start over and have to figure that out again.
>
> This is what I have done. I have the source for wktraster in the
> /opt/local/src/wktraster directory. I have configured the install with
>
> ./configure --with-postgis-sources=/opt/local/src/postgis-1.5.2
>
> which works fine. I did this because I couldn't find the liblwgeom.h file
> that wktraster needs anywhere on the system. "port install postgis" doesn't
> seem to install this, and I can't figure out how to get it so leave the
> source code on the system. This could be my big problem, and if anyone has
> any general tips about compiling against the source of installed packages
> with MacPorts, I would love to hear them. I haven't found anything much in
> the documentation (I might have missed it).
>
> I then run "make" on the configured wktraster source code, and I get this
> error:
>
> *make -C rt_core*
> *cc -g -O2  -fno-common -DPIC  -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
>  -I/opt/local/src/postgis-1.5.2/liblwgeom -I/opt/local/include     -c -o
> rt_api.o rt_api.c*
> *In file included from rt_api.h:87,*
> *                 from rt_api.c:33:*
> */opt/local/src/postgis-1.5.2/liblwgeom/liblwgeom.h:18:31: error:
> ../postgis_config.h: No such file or directory*
> *make[1]: *** [rt_api.o] Error 1*
> *make: *** [corelib] Error 2*
>
> This is where I started guessing. I tried configuring and making the
> postgis source code in the /opt/local/src/postgis directory, hoping that
> would create a postgis_config.h file, but it complains that it can't find
> the libproj files (I tried --with-projdir=/opt/locl/share/proj and
> --with-projdir=/opt/local/lib and
> even --with-projdir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/proj/4.7.0_0/opt/local/lib
> but none of that works.
>
> I downloaded the PROJ.4 source code, to try using that, but then it is
> missing something different, and it seems like this will go on forever,
> especially since I am just guessing at this point.
>
> Any tips or suggestions welcome.
>
> Thanks!
> JP
>
>
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