[gdal-dev] libgrass

[Frank Warmerdam]

James McManus wrote:
> When I use gdalinfo on a GRASS raster file I get the following error 
> message:
> 
> error while loading shared libraries: libgrass_dgl.so: cannot open 
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> The libgrass libraries are installed in /usr/lib64 but they all have 
> .so.6.3.0 suffix's.

James,

I'm not sure what is up with the above.  Do you have the grass shared
library directory in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

 >  When I attempt to compile libgrass from source at:
> 
> http://home.gdal.org/projects/grass/
> 
> I get a configure error:
> 
> checking host system type... Invalid configuration 
> `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': machine `x86_64-unknown' not recognized

That libgrass is quite ancient now and I don't think it is suitable for
use with modern GRASS or even perhaps modern GDAL.

Best regards,
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