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

[Carlos A. Rueda]

Sorry, my last sentence should read:

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


Carlos A. Rueda wrote:
> [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