Shad; Your configure run tells you what's wrong. See the line "configure: error: Can't find 'flex'"? It's telling you that you don't have flex, a lexical analyzer generator, installed.
You need to issue some "yum" or "rpm" command or the other that will install flex (sorry I don't know what command that is; I use Ubuntu Linux which uses a different technology called "apt"). You will probably find other things you need as well as you re-run configure. These are all "basic development tools", kind of like the compiler. It looks as though you many not have read http://www.postgis.org/documentation/manual-1.3/ch02.html#PGInstall to see what PostGIS specific things you need (Proj4, GEOS). Why do I say this? Well look again at your config messages: "checking for geos-config... no" oops no GEOS; "checking for proj... no" oops no Proj4. Building something from sources on Linux isn't hard, but you do have to read and understand your configure / make messages to be able to take appropriate action when things don't finish up the way you hope. Perhaps you might want to do a bit of background reading in an introductory Linux book or web-site? Shad Keene wrote: > My IT person installed the devel pkgs and the postgis install got a > little further but still bombed out before finishing. Any ideas? > Both postgis 1.2.1 and 1.3.5 failed. I'm trying to accomplish this > remotely, so its frustrating that postgis is not installing > correctly. Before switching to linux, it was easy to use the > stackbuilder on windows to install/update postgis. linux seems to be > more difficult. Thanks for any help! > > Shad > > > > here's the recent error messages: > > > > > > checking for pg_config... /usr/bin/pg_config > checking for geos-config... no > checking for proj... no > checking for flex... no > configure: error: Can't find 'flex' > [r...@zoa-project postgis-1.2.1]# > > checking for pg_config... /usr/bin/pg_config > checking for geos-config... no > checking for proj... no > checking for flex... no > configure: error: Can't find 'flex' > [r...@zoa-project postgis-1.3.5]# > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Rediscover Hotmail®: Now available on your iPhone or BlackBerry Check > it out. > <http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Mobile2_042009> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > -- Regards, Chris Hermansen mailto:[email protected] tel+1.604.714.2878 · fax+1.604.733.0631 · mob+1.778.232.0644 Timberline Natural Resource Group · http://www.timberline.ca 401 · 958 West 8th Avenue · Vancouver BC · Canada · V5Z 1E5 _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
