[Gdal-dev] Make error "libtool: compile: unable to infertaggedconfiguration"

[Mateusz Loskot]

Patton, Eric wrote
>
> After some more digging around in Synaptic and installing some more
> packages, (specifically, unixodbc and libpq), the "unable to infer
> taggedconfiguration" error has vanished. I proceeded normally with make,
> and I received and error about libstdc++.la not being in /usr/lib.
> Synaptic reports that the libstdc++6.4.1-dbg package installed libstdc++.a
> and libstdc++.la in /usr/local/debug. So I created a symlink for each
> libstdc++ archive file:
>
> $ pwd
> /usr/lib
>
> $ sudo ln -s debug/libstdc++.a libstdc++.a
> $ sudo ln -s debug/libstdc++.la libstdc++.la

Eric,

You do not need -dbg packages to build and run GDAL.
You can safely uninstall it.

> and re-ran make, which completed without the aforementioned "libstdc++.la
> not found in /usr/lib" error.
>
> Curiously, though, the last three lines of the 'make install' output read:
> ldconfig: /usr/local/lib/libproj.so.0 is not a symbolic link
> ldconfig: /usr/local/lib/libgeos.so.2 is not a symbolic link
> ldconfig: /usr/local/lib/libgeos_c.so.1 is not a symbolic link
>
> Is this a problem? gdalinfo --version reports:

I don't think so this is a problem but I'd suggest to check to what
libraries GDAL links exactly:

ldd `which gdalinfo`

and

ldd /path/to/libgdal.so

Cheers
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net