[Gdal-dev] Order of ops for GRASS with GDAL support install?

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 8/23/05, Jonathan Greenberg <jgreenberg at arc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> BABA Yoshihiko has been doing a great job getting GDAL and GRASS working
> under the fink package manager, but I'm noticing a slightly odd way of
> getting GRASS with GDAL support -- am I correct in noticing there are
> cyclical dependencies, e.g. You have to first compile gdal, then compile
> grass with gdal support, then compile gdal with grass support?  If this is
> true, is there any way to get around this?

Jonathan, 

Yes, there is a cyclical dependency.  In the Debian packaging
group, they can't really have that, as they can't seem to force
the package building machinery build and then rebuild GDAL
later.  So what we did was handle the GDAL/GRASS driver as
a separate package which GDAL finds as a plugin.  

For that purpose, the GRASS driver is offered as a separate
source package as well but I won't point you to that yet, because
I want to provide a unified GRASS driver package for GDAL 1.3.0
that includes the OGR GRASS vector drive that Radim implemented
recently. 

Best regards,
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