<html><body><div id="zimbraEditorContainer" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000" class="146"><div>I'm sure I'm making a very basic error, but what?</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I've downloaded and built PROJ-7.1.0, on<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"> ubuntu 20.04.</span><div style="clear: both;" data-mce-style="clear: both;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div><div><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">In <MY_PROJ>/proj /build/bin directory, running 'proj -V' gives this error:</span></div><div><span style="orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><div style="">$ ./proj -V</div><div style="">Rel. 7.1.0, August 1st, 2020</div><div style=""><proj>: </div><div style="">projection initialization failure</div><div style="">cause: no arguments in initialization list</div><div style="">program abnormally terminated</div></span></div><div><br></div><div>Based on other posts, I set PROJ_LIB to the directory where proj.db resides:</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>export PROJ_LIB=<MY_PROJ>/PROJ-7.1.0/build/data</div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But 'proj -V' gives the same error.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Anyone know what I am doing wrong?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">--------------------------------------------------</span><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__">Thomas C. O'Reilly<br>Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute<br>7700 Sandholdt Road<br>Moss Landing, California 95039-9644<br>831-775-1766 (voice)<br>831-775-1620 (FAX)<br>oreilly@mbari.org (email)<br>http://www.mbari.org (World-wide Web)<br> <br>"The machine does not isolate us from the great mysteries<br> of nature, but plunges us more deeply into them."<br> <br> - ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY<br> "Wind, Sand, and Stars" (1939)<br> </div></div></body></html>