[Gdal-dev] --with-hdf4=?

[Carlos A. Rueda]

[Apologies if this has been asked before]
I'm trying to ./configure --with-hdf4=ARG on a debian system.
The --help says:
   --with-hdf4=ARG       Include HDF4 support (ARG=path)
What path should be used? I donwloaded the HDF binary distribution
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF/HDF4.2r1/bin/linux/ and installed it
in such a way that I'm specifying ARG as the parent directory
under which the include/ and lib/ subdirectories are. However,
./configure complains with:

...
checking for FMEObjects... no
checking for SDreaddata in -lmfhdf... no
checking for SDreaddata in -lhdf4... no
checking for SDreaddata in -lmfhdf... no
checking for SDreaddata in -lmfhdf... no
configure: error: HDF4 support requested with arg /usr/local/hdf, but neither hdf4 nor mfhdf lib found

I notice that ARG/lib/ does not contain libmfhdf.a but does contain libhdf4.a.

Could someone provide some clarification?
Thanks!
carlos