I am trying to install GEOS for Django project and following Docs but while compiling on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial I get this error. There was some fix for it here but it also didn't worked. Following is the error I get while I ran "make" as per official Django docs.
Error:
gdalserver.c: In function 'CreateSocketAndBindAndListen':
gdalserver.c:125:21: error: storage size of 'sHints' isn't known
struct addrinfo sHints;
^
gdalserver.c:127:31: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct addrinfo'
memset(&sHints, 0, sizeof(struct addrinfo));
^
gdalserver.c:130:23: error: 'AI_PASSIVE' undeclared (first use in this function)
sHints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE;
^
gdalserver.c:130:23: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
gdalserver.c:133:12: warning: implicit declaration of function 'getaddrinfo' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
nRet = getaddrinfo(NULL, pszService, &sHints, &psResults);
^
gdalserver.c:136:48: warning: implicit declaration of function 'gai_strerror' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
fprintf(stderr, "getaddrinfo(): %s\n", gai_strerror(nRet));
^
gdalserver.c:136:25: warning: format '%s' expects argument of type 'char *', but argument 3 has type 'int' [-Wformat=]
fprintf(stderr, "getaddrinfo(): %s\n", gai_strerror(nRet));
^
gdalserver.c:142:39: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type 'struct addrinfo'
psResultsIter = psResultsIter->ai_next)
^
gdalserver.c:163:5: warning: implicit declaration of function 'freeaddrinfo' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
freeaddrinfo(psResults);
^
gdalserver.c:125:21: warning: unused variable 'sHints' [-Wunused-variable]
struct addrinfo sHints;
^
../GDALmake.opt:565: recipe for target 'gdalserver.lo' failed
make[1]: *** [gdalserver.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/osboxes/gdal-1.11.2/apps'
GNUmakefile:69: recipe for target 'apps-target' failed
make: *** [apps-target] Error 2
