[Slackbuilds-users] Postgis not finding installed gdal

[Benjamin Trigona-Harany]

On Saturday, November 11, 2017 10:16:49 AM PST Rich Shepard wrote:
>    Attempting to upgrade postgis to 2.4.1 fails during configuration:
> 
> checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
> checking GDAL version... 2.2.2
> checking for OGR enabled... yes
> checking gdal.h usability... yes
> checking gdal.h presence... yes
> checking for gdal.h... yes
>   ...
> checking for library containing GDALAllRegister... no
> configure: error: could not find GDAL
> 
>    The script seems to find gdal-2.2.2 (the current SBo version) and the
> header file. I don't understand how to fix this error and would appreciate a
> pointer.

A fresh install of GDAL and then PostGIS on my 64-bit 14.2 does not produce 
this error and the build completes successfully.

Ben