[El] Problem installing 'rgdal' package under R 2.12.1 and gdal 1.7.3

[Mauricio Zambrano]

On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 15:20 +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
> > One more time, Thank you very much Mathieu !
> 
> You're welcome!
> 
> Bottom line: do not install from source, except if your really want to
> track the cutting edge of a project.

It was a painful but useful lesson.

> 
> That's the whole point of providing RPMs of the latest stable versions
> as we try to do: so that people don't have to go through this pain.

Everything started because the gdal 1.7.2-5_0.el5.elgis.i386 didn't have
the PCRaster support, and -at that time- compiling from source was the
quickest solution.

However, now I'm sure that from this point on, it only will be my very
last resource.

All the best,

Mauricio

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mathieu

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