[Gdal-dev] cannot build grass plugin in gdal - still

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:28:38PM +0200, Maciek Sieczka wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Still I can't build the gdal-grass plugin in gdal. I'm following what the 
> README says - and nothing.
> 
> I have GDAL and GRASS61 (both fresh cvs) installed properly in their 
> standard locations.
> GRASS61 in /usr/local/grass-6.1.cvs and GDAL in /usr/local.
> 
> I enter the GRASS format dir in GDAL:
> 
> [trawiarz at quercus src]$ cd gdal/frmts/grass/pkg
> 
> Configure like the README ther says:
> 
> [trawiarz at quercus pkg]$ 
> ./configure --with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config 
> --with-grass=/usr/local/grass-6.1.cvs
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking for g++... g++
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
> checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking for g++ -shared ... yes
> user supplied gdal-config (/usr/local/bin/gdal-config)
> using /usr/local/lib as GDAL shared library autoload directory
> checking for G_asprintf in -lgrass_gis... yes
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> 
> Commit make:
> 
> [trawiarz at quercus pkg]$ make
> make: *** No rule to make target `grass57dataset.o', needed by 
> `gdal_GRASS.so'.  Stop.
> 
> Where's my error?

What I do (maybe not ideal, but works):
You have to link the C files from ../ into the current directory:

 ln -sf ../*.cpp .
 make
 make install

Markus