Install libspatialindex on Webfaction machine?

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I'm trying to install libspatialindex on my machine. This is what I've tried:

cd ~/src
wget http://download.osgeo.org/libspatialindex/spatialindex-src-1.8.5.tar.gz
tar xzvf spatialindex-src-1.8.5.tar.gz
cd spatialindex-src-1.8.5
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

But at this point I get the following error:

libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libspatialindex.so.4.0.1 /home/annaps/lib/libspatialindex.so.4.0.1
libtool: install: (cd /home/annaps/lib && { ln -s -f libspatialindex.so.4.0.1 libspatialindex.so.4 || { rm -f libspatialindex.so.4 && ln -s libspatialindex.so.4.0.1 libspatialindex.so.4; }; })
libtool: install: (cd /home/annaps/lib && { ln -s -f libspatialindex.so.4.0.1 libspatialindex.so || { rm -f libspatialindex.so && ln -s libspatialindex.so.4.0.1 libspatialindex.so; }; })
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libspatialindex.lai /home/annaps/lib/libspatialindex.la
libtool: install: error: cannot install `libspatialindex_c.la' to a directory not ending in /usr/local/lib
make[2]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/annaps/src/spatialindex-src-1.8.5'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/annaps/src/spatialindex-src-1.8.5'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Obviously I can't install to /usr/local/lib on a shared machine, so is there any way I can get round this to install libspatialindex?

Answer 1

I tried the steps you showed under a test account on your server, and they worked for me:

mkdir -p ~/src
cd ~/src
wget http://download.osgeo.org/libspatialindex/spatialindex-src-1.8.5.tar.gz
tar xzvf spatialindex-src-1.8.5.tar.gz
cd spatialindex-src-1.8.5
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

Can you try creating a new SSH user and performing this install under the fresh user account created?

My guess is that this will work, which means that there's something inconsistent about your main account- perhaps you didn't install make clean (or make distclean) before running ./configure --prefix=$HOME a second time after running it incorrectly a first time. Or, perhaps you have another configuration file somewhere (or perhaps an environment variable) that's affecting the configure script. In any case, it's not an issue with the approach, and clearing out the existing install and trying again from a fresh environment may help.

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