[Gdal-dev] GDAL + Linux x86-64 support?

[Alessandro Amici]

Robert,

On Monday 09 February 2004 00:01, Robert Osfield wrote:
> I have just built myself a Althon64 based Suse9.0 64bit Linux box, and have
> downloaded the cvs version of gdal and run ./configure, make but get the
> error from make:
>
> gdal>./configure
> ....  last line says..
> checking for MrSIDImage.h in /include... configure: error: not found.

mm... did you really run the configure script without any argument? it seem 
strange since mksid support is not enabled by default.
if you do enable it you need to supply the path to the mrsid dsdk (as per 
configure --help).
i wuold suggest not to enable it at first.

> gdal> make
> GNUmakefile:5: GDALmake.opt: No such file or directory

this is a consequence to the configure error above.

> I'm not a configure expert, so havn't rolled my sleeves up and delved in. I
> also haven't included the whole configure output here as I'm writing this
> email from my old Linux box without a direct connection or email set up on
> the yet.  I'll include this tomorrow if required.
>
> So, is x86-64 Linux supported by GDAL?  If not what are your thoughts on
> support for x86-64?  If yes, suggestions on what to tweak at my end would
> be very welcome.

AFAIK gdal itself is 64bit clean and i see no reason autoconf should not 
support the athlon64 out-of-the-box.
so, yes i think your system should be supported, but i haven't seen any report 
yet. if you succeed in building gdal please let us know.

cheers,
alessandro