[GRASS-user] Problem with grib support for GRASS 6.4

[Hamish]

Thomas wrote:
> As you suspected, there was a problem with a 2nd gdal
> installation. The environment I am working in, is a
> networked environment with many NSF mounts to local
> workstations and servers. I am required to put any new GRASS
> (or other software, including gdal) installations in a
> non-standard location, one which is accessible to any user
> logged into any of the networked computers. It turns out
> that there is also an older GRASS installation (6.2.2) on
> all machines in /usr/local, which is built on version 1.4.x
> of gdal. Even though when building GRASS using ./configure,
> the older gdal libraries were being used by my new install
> of GRASS 6.4 and r.in.gdal. So, I suppose the older version
> of gdal 1.4.x did not support GRIB.

right, grib support was added to gdal in version 1.5.

> I'm still confused why the older gdal libs were being used
> rather than my newer vesion.

did the './configure --with-gdal=/.../gdal-config' point to the right
one?

> Is this a LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue
> or what? To get r.in.gdal to import the GRIB files, I have
> pointed the /usr/local/gdal directory to the newer gdal
> install I built rather than the older version.

AFAIK LD_LIBRARY_PATH gets scanned before the regular ldconfig path.
remember to `export` the bash variable if you use that.
 
> Thanks again for your help!

no worries.


Hamish