[PROJ] 'proj -V' fails (proj 7.1.0)

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Tom,

My brain constantly gets stuck on this also, every once in a while, 
because I'd expect 'proj --version', or something similar, to work (to 
verify that my installation is working and returning the correct 
version).  The PROJ utilities act a little different in that sense, and 
instead you must just call the utility without any parameters, to get 
the version:

# proj <ENTER>
Rel. 8.2.1, January 1st, 2022


-jeff



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Jeff McKenna
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On 2022-10-03 1:11 p.m., Tom O'Reilly wrote:
> I'm sure I'm making a very basic error, but what?
> 
> I've downloaded and built PROJ-7.1.0, on ubuntu 20.04.
> 
> In <MY_PROJ>/proj /build/bin directory, running 'proj -V' gives this error:
> $ ./proj -V
> Rel. 7.1.0, August 1st, 2020
> <proj>:
> projection initialization failure
> cause: no arguments in initialization list
> program abnormally terminated
> 
> Based on other posts, I set PROJ_LIB to the directory where proj.db resides:
> 
> export PROJ_LIB=<MY_PROJ>/PROJ-7.1.0/build/data
> 
> But 'proj -V' gives the same error.
> Anyone know what I am doing wrong?
> Thanks!
> 
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