How-To and FAQ

• Q: While installing rasdaman I find out, during ./configure, that some further packages are required. Can you give a summary of these?

A: Besides the standard ones which should be available on any vanilla Linux, it is this list: g++ 4.x, make, git-core, autoconf, libtool, gawk, flex, bison, ​libreadline-dev, ​postgresql 8.3.x, ​libecpg-dev, ​sun-java6-jdk, libtiff-dev, libjpeg-dev, ​libhdf4g-dev, ​libpng12-dev, ​libnetpbm10-dev, libopenssl-devel.

• Q: Having done all the above, ./configure complains about missing curses although ncurses is there.

A: You have run into a ​bug in the ncurses package; in /usr/lib, manually create symlinks libcurses.a → libncurses.a and libcurses.so → libncurses.so.

• Q: configure complains that some required files, like install-sh, cannot be found.

A: retry configure after running

automake --add-missing

• Q: I get a link error, function ECPGget_connection cannot be found.

A: What appears to have happened is that in PostgreSQL 8.3.0 they removed ECPGget_connection and they have reintroduced it by 8.3.7. So PostgreSQL versions 8.3.0 up to (but excluding) 8.3.7 cannot be used.