Hello! I'm planning to install PostgreSQL 8.1 along with PostGIS and GEOS, from ports. Unfortunately, the server's operating system where I do this is 4.11 and it can't be easily upgraded.
I found the following note in PostGIS documentation: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you plan to use GEOS functionality you might need to explicitly link PostgreSQL against the standard C++ library: LDFLAGS=-lstdc++ ./configure [YOUR OPTIONS HERE] This is a workaround for bogus C++ exceptions interaction with older development tools. If you experience weird problems (backend unexpectedly closed or similar things) try this trick. This will require recompiling your PostgreSQL from scratch, of course. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think that GCC 2.95 as found in FreeBSD 4 may qualify as an "older development tool"? I already installed GEOS and it pulled in lang/gcc34 as a dependency, but it seems that databases/postgresql81-server is going to be built with base system gcc. Is it likely to lead to the conflict described above? Is anyone running PostgreSQL + PostGIS on FreeBSD 4 and did you find it necessary to use this LDFLAGS trick? -- Toomas Aas _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"