Build GDAL from source with Postgres support on AWS Linux

howto.md

How to make custom Elastic Beanstalk AMI

1. Start environment with your desired configuration (e.g. Python 3.4)
2. Find generated instance in EC2 console. The AMI ID is your base image.
3. Launch an instance from the base AMI (It will be in the list of community AMISs)
4. Provision that instance.
5. Make an AMI from it. Use the AMI ID in your beanstalk environment configuration.

install.sh

#! /bin/bash

sudo yum install -y gcc-c++
sudo yum install -y gcc
sudo yum install -y libpng
sudo yum install -y libtiff
sudo yum install -y postgresql95-devel
sudo yum install -y git
sudo yum install -y libffi-devel
sudo yum install -y libxml2-devel
sudo yum install -y libxslt-devel
sudo yum install -y htop

wget http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-4.9.3.tar.gz 
tar -zvxf proj-4.9.3.tar.gz
cd proj-4.9.3
./configure
make -j 2
sudo make install
cd ..
rm proj-4.9.3.tar.gz

wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.2/gdal-2.1.2.tar.gz
tar -zvxf gdal-2.1.2.tar.gz
cd gdal-2.1.2
./configure --with-static-proj4=/usr/local/lib --with-threads --with-pg=/usr/bin/pg_config
make -j 2
sudo make install
cd ..
rm gdal-2.1.2.tar.gz

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ogr2ogr /usr/bin/ogr2ogr

Based on https://github.com/wavded/ogre/wiki/Compiling-a-recent-ogr2ogr-from-source-on-CentOS-(RHEL)