Debian compatibility

[thomersch]

When launching the binaries on Debian Wheezy, nothing happens, because imposm requires GLIBC_2.14, which is not (yet) available under Debian.

I can resolve the following problems by moving lib out of the way and installing the libraries manually:

./imposm3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by ./imposm3)
./imposm3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /home/gis/imposm3/lib/libgeos_c.so.1)
./imposm3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /home/gis/imposm3/lib/libgdal.so.1)
./imposm3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /home/gis/imposm3/lib/libgdal.so.1)
./imposm3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /home/gis/imposm3/lib/libgeos-3.3.8.so)

Building imposm on Debian is problematic as well, because go get github.com/jmhodges/levigo doesn't build at all with the provided levigo.

# github.com/jmhodges/levigo
1: error: 'leveldb_free' undeclared (first use in this function)
1: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in

The only solution I found was replacing levigo by https://github.com/jmhodges/levigo_leveldb_1.4, which is rather a workaround than a solution.

Another problem appears when installing imposm3/geom/ogr:

go get imposm3 
# imposm3/geom/ogr
ogr.go:4:21: fatal error: ogr_api.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

Even though I have installed gdal with all the libraries (gdal-bin and libgdal-dev), the library is still missing.

Would be very nice, if there would be a solution to make it compatible with the unreasonably old packages of Debian.

[thomersch]

Ok. It turns out, the linker doesn't look at the proper paths. When hardcoding /usr/include/gdal/ into ogr.go, the compiler/linker does the job properly. Still, rather a workaround than a solution.

[olt]

Hah. Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't considered that the binaries are not forward-compatible. Guess I'll have to downgrade my build system to Ubuntu 10.4 to support everything from SLES11, RHEL6 and Debian 5 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_Library#Version_history).

For levigo: Yes, you need a more recent LevelDB version, or the levigo_leveldb_1.4 bindings which supports the Debian version of LevelDB. If you want to work with larger PBFs (Europe or Planet) then I would suggest to try https://github.com/rescrv/HyperLevelDB.

For OGR: The Debian/Ubuntu packages of libgdal are putting the header files inside gdal/ which differs from a default configure && make install. I will have to see how to support both locations.

[milovanderlinden]

Fails on archlinux too:

[miblon@dogo001 imposm]$ uname -a
Linux dogo001 3.11.5-1-ARCH 
#1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 14 08:31:43 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[miblon@dogo001 imposm]$ go get imposm3
# github.com/jmhodges/levigo
batch.go:3:24: fatal error: leveldb/c.h: No such file or directory
 // #cgo LDFLAGS: -lleveldb

[milovanderlinden]

And:

[miblon@dogo001 imposm]$ go get github.com/jmhodges/levigo
# github.com/jmhodges/levigo
batch.go:3:24: fatal error: leveldb/c.h: No such file or directory
 // #cgo LDFLAGS: -lleveldb
                        ^
compilation terminated.

[milovanderlinden]

My wrong, turns out I needed to install leveldb first.

[kapouer]

This might be totally out of subject (and i would be sorry for that) but:
gdal-config --cflags
could help.

[olt]

Closing this as current binaries are supported even by older Linux distributions.