[Gdal-dev] gdal

Steve Halasz debian at adkgis.org
Fri Sep 10 10:30:54 EDT 2004


On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 04:33, Maciek Sieczka wrote:
> From: "Steve Halasz" <debian at adkgis.org>
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 18:47, Maciek Sieczka wrote:
> > > hello
> > >
> > > can somebody tell me if it is safe now to build gdal (cvs) --with-grass?
> > > I read some about it but I'm confused
> > >
> > > I want to make the r.out.gdal in Grass work
> 
> > Maciek,
> >
> > It has worked fine for me. But I don't think it's what you need here.
> > gdal --with-grass allows gdal to read grass vectors and rasters. But
> > r.out.gdal depends on building grass --with-gdal
> 
> as I know it's opposite - r.out.gdal depends on building GDAL --with-grass
> like in my case when I didn't do it and I get:
> 
> r.out.gdal
> (...)
> ERROR: GDAL installation does not support GRASS.
>     Recompile GDAL libraries to use r.out.gdal

You're right. I didn't realize this was a requirement. It looks like for
grass 5.3 you need to install libgrass before compiling gdal
--with-grass. See:

http://grass.institutoecos.org.br/grass-list/arq/25903.html

Steve




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