[STATSGRASS] rgdal doesn't work with GDAL 1.4.0

[Roger Bivand]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Roger Bivand wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 jarekj at amu.edu.pl wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Carlos!
> > 
> > I mentioned it two weeks ago!
> 
> GDAL 1.4.0 was released 6 January 2007 13:10:21 -0500, so early evening
> CET yesterday. No mention reached me (please do write directly to the
> package maintainer in such cases, mailing lists can be subject to
> back-ups). rgdal has tracked GDAL cvs, and I am now looking at the issue,
> which I do not consider critical - anyone wanting to be on the bleeding
> edge has to be prepared to handle these slippages from time to time.
> 
> If you have a working patch (that works for both 1.3.* and 1.4.0), I would 
> be grateful. What you propose below is not acceptable, because both have 
> to be accommodated.

Replacing configure and configure.in from:

http://rgdal.cvs.sourceforge.net/rgdal/rgdal/

or checking out the current CVS version from sourceforge will resolve the 
issue. rgdal 0.5-5 will be released to CRAN when a Windows version of GDAL 
1.4.0 has been built and checked (several days).

Roger

> 
> Roger
> 
> > 
> > It it effect of simple configure check test wchich test only if gdal is
> > of version 1.3.x
> > 
> > to solve it:
> > download rgdal to local computer,
> > unpack tar package,
> > edit cofigure, go to line 1334,
> > change REQ_GDAL from "1.3" to "1.4"),
> > pack it again (name must be the same!),
> > and istall extension with R CMD INSTALL 'rgdalxxxx"
> > 
> > it had help on my computer (btw, on fresh edgy be prepered for some
> > surprises with nviz)
> > 
> > btw2: rgdal maitainer shall change configure.in file to maintain both
> > 1.3.x and 1.4.x gdal wersion imediatelly
> > 
> > regards
> > Jarek
> > 
> > 7/1/2007, ""Carlos \"Guâno\" Grohmann"
> > carlos.grohmann at gmail.com"
> > <"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Carlos_\"Gu=E2no\"_Grohmann?="
> > carlos.grohmann at gmail.com> napisa³/a:
> > 
> > >Hello all
> > >I have just made a fresh install, using Ubuntu Feisty for upgrade, so
> > >now I have GDAL 1.4.0 and R 2.4.1. when I tryed to install rgdal, I
> > >get this error:
> > >
> > >* Installing *source* package 'rgdal' ...
> > >gdal-config: gdal-config
> > >GDAL version 1.4.0 found ...
> > >For building this version, at least GDAL version 1.3.1 is required.
> > >ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgdal'
> > >** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgdal'
> > >
> > >
> > >I don't get it. If my version is higher than the required one, why it
> > >doesn't work?
> > >
> > >Carlos
> > >
> > >
> > >
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