Dear GRASS users:

I would like to ask your help.
I have troubles using r.in.hdf in GRASS5.0.1 and GRASS4.3
on Linux on my intel-PC.

On GRASS5.0.1 I found r.in.hdf had not been installed,
hence I tried to install it by myself by running "# gmake5"
under ~/grass5.0.1/src.garden/grass.hdf/ but I came up with
some error messages like this:

  No rule to make target "-lgis" which is necessary for
  ~/grass5.0.1/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/etc/bin/cmd/r.in.hdf.
  Stopped.

(To tell the truth, this may not be very accurate because I
translated it from the original error message in Japanese
in my Linux system).
I found in the past logfiles of the GRASS mailing-list that
ftp://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/incoming/grass.hdf.tar.gz
may solve this problem (thanks to Mr. Neteler) but unfortunately
the ftp server did not respond.

On GRASS4.3, I downloaded a precompiled binary and found that
r.in.hdf was one of default commands already compiled in the
binary. I tried to use it for two HDF files: a SPOT-Vegetation 
radiometric data as well as MODIS data (MOD02QKM), but in both
case, I came up with messages as follows and obtained no data in
raster data lists at g.list.

  Large file - reading row by row.
  Writing GRASS output file: hdf.rast01
  WARNING: G_set_window(): Illegal latitude for North

I know the HDF format of MODIS is not pure HDF but HDF-EOS and
I guessed this "dialect" in HDF might caused this problem, but
I do not know any possible problems with SPOT-Vegetation.

As long as I tried, other basic functions of GRASS4.3 and 
GRASS5.0.1 seem to be working on my system.

I appreciate any comments concerning to these troubles.


Kenlo Nishida,
University of Tsukuba,
kenlo@sakura.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp


