Too hard to install

[guest]

neither cmake nor autotools are installed on the server I'm on and after installing them both, neither of them work..

Cmake:

  # cmake ../trunk
  CMake Error: your CXX compiler: "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not found.   Please set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or name.

Autotools:

  # ./autogen.sh
  Missing aclocal!

I know these aren't defects with geos, but I'm creating this ticket to let the maintainers know that these are very high barriers to get geos up and running. I'm sure I could do it if there was already a ./configure The highest rpm of geos I could find is 2.2.3 and postgis 1.5.3 requires GEOS >= 3.1.1 I've spent an afternoon trying to install GEOS.

[guest]

ok was able to get autogen.sh working by installing yum install libtool Maybe add a note that libtool is the name of the autotools package (on redhat at least) here: http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/BuildingOnUnixWithAutotools ?

[pramsey]

I just pulled the geos-3.3.0.tar.bz2 file and there is indeed a configure script in it. All the tarballs have configure scripts. The only thing that doesn't is the SVN itself, because configure is a generated file, and if you're working with the SVN base you should have (or be willing to get) the developers tools.

[guest]

aha - thanks - I went for the svn as ​http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.3.0.tar.bz2 is timing out for me. I assumed it was equivalent.

btw to get aclocal working had to install libtool

[pramsey]

temporarily offline, try

​http://download2.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.3.0.tar.bz2