[GRASS-user] compiling gdal with grass + define grass data directory in compiling options

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 09:21:22AM -0700, Tom Russo wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 04:29:16PM +0100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <hellik at web.de> flavor, containing:
> > hi,
> > 
> > on my laptop i'm using a binary-rpm of gdal for using together with grass. now i have a new linux-machine and want to compile also gdal from source.
> > 
> > in the gdal-compiling-configure i saw the two options --with-grass and --with-libgrass. do i need setting these two options on for working gdal together with grass?  maybe be this would be good addition in the wiki because of gdal being a requirement for grass?
> 
> No, it's not advisable to build gdal with grass support directly.  To do so
> makes a circular dependency that is a pain every time you upgrade either.
> 
> A far better method is to build gdal without grass support, then build grass,
> then build the gdal-grass plug-in.  The plug-in is available at the same 
> download site as gdal.  Once you build grass, you just make and install the
> plug-in, and that gets gdal grass support without having to recompile gdal
> again.

Right. For details, see here:
http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/Compile_and_install_GRASS_and_QGIS_with_GDAL/OGR_Plugin

Markus