[QGIS-Developer] CRS troubles (QGIS 3.6.3, Proj 6.1.0)

[Hernán De Angelis]

Hi QGIS developers

I am writing to this list in the hope of finding some clues about the 
following problem. This has also been presented in the user list (*).

I have built 3.6.3 from source against proj 6.1.0 and GDAL 3.0.0. None 
of which had any problems during build. Even Proj 6.1.0 test suite 
passes perfectly. However, the newly built QGIS has troubles with the 
CRS list in that a lot of the usual systems are either missing or have 
changed names. For example, the usual EPSG:4326 is called IGNF:WGS84G. 
Others are just plainly missing and those in my projects are replaced by 
some "user defined" designation. There are also problems when trying to 
display a WMS service since the CRS available at the service seem to go 
unrecognized. This is regrettable since this turns QGIS large unusable 
for me.

It might be interesting to note that both QGIS "make" and  "make 
install" complain that

proj_create: crs not found

On the other hand, both GDAL and GRASS, that are dependent on Proj do 
not seem to have any problems with Proj 6.1.0.

I have compiled many times, both 3.6.2. and 3.6.3 and I am having the 
same problem everytime. I wonder if this is happening due to some local 
problem in my installation (fresh openSUSE 15.1 install) or some glitch 
due to recent changes in proj.

Is this a known issue?

Any hint will be appreciated!

Thanks in advance, and thanks for your efforts in developing this great 
tool!

H.


(*) problem described in the QGIS user mailing list:

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2019-June/043302.html

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2019-June/043306.html