[OSM-dev] Problem building osm2pgsql from source

[Jon Burgess]

On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 15:15 -0700, Michael Corey wrote:
> Hi all: Please excuse me if this isn't the right list for this.
> 
> 
> 
> While following the directions for installing osm2pgsql from source, I
> get a fatal error while running 'make':
> 
> build_geometry.Tpo -c -o build_geometry.o build_geometry.cpp
> build_geometry.cpp:29:26: fatal error: geos/version.h: No such file or
> directory
> compilation terminated.
> 
What distro are you building this on? 

The version.h file should be part of the geos library headers, e.g. 

Ubuntu:
$ dpkg -S /usr/include/geos/version.h 
libgeos-dev: /usr/include/geos/version.h

Fedora:
$ rpm -qf /usr/include/geos/version.h 
geos-devel-3.3.1-1.fc16.x86_64


  Jon