[Gdal-dev] ogr2ogr

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Thu Jan 25 08:22:04 EST 2007


Gennady Khokhorin wrote:
> Frank,
> I'm debuging ogr2ogr and have couple questions about program structure.
> 
> 1. Should --config "GDAL_DATA" be applyed in ogr2ogr command? If so I dont see
> args handling --config in ogr2ogr.cpp. How this variable gets into the code?
> 2. What the story with OGR_DRIVER_PATH, GDAL_DRIVER_PATH in OGRSFDriverREgistrar::AutoLoadDrivers()?
> Should I set it up at run time?

Gennady,

I see Mateusz has covered off config variables in some detail.

Normally you should not need OGR_DRIVER_PATH and GDAL_DRIVER_PATH.  They
are really for the special circumstance where some drivers are being
handled as plugins.

Best regards,
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