[gdal-dev] Getting BigTiff support in Ubuntu 9.04 64bits

[Felix Schalck]

2009/8/14 Nikos Alexandris <nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de>:
> Felix Schalck:
>> Dear Frank,
>> After some extensive research, I discovered this:
>>
>> qwerkus at qwerkus-desktop:~$ ls -la /usr/local/bin/gdalwarp
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95391 2009-08-14 20:20 /usr/local/bin/gdalwarp
>> qwerkus at qwerkus-desktop:~$ ls -la /usr/bin/gdalwarp
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31608 2009-03-10 00:32 /usr/bin/gdalwarp
>>
>> Looks like your were right: it is an installation problem: looks like
>> the installation script doesn't put gdal in the sam directory as the
>> ubuntu package manager.
>> Now, here comes another problem:
>>
>> By invoquing /usr/local/bin/gdalwarp, I have this error message:
>>
>> gdalwarp: error while loading shared libraries: libgdal.so.1: cannot
>> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> Although, by launching gdalwarp from the compilation directory (in
>> scr/apps), It works fine INCLUDING BIGTIFF option.
>> How can I fix the linking problem ?
>
> Felix,
> I use (ubuntu 9.04 / 64-bit), among others, the following
> in /etc/ld.so.conf:
>
> ---%<---%<--
> # share
> /usr/local/share/gdal
>
> # gdal
> /usr/local/lib/gdalplugins
> #/geo/osgeo/FWTools-2.0.6/bin_safe
> # I use the last line to read HDF files (like MODIS MOD09 products)
> ---%<---%<--
>
> No warranty though. I am still messing up my system from time to time
> and kill my time trying to fix it (or loading the lists with
> questions :-p).
>
> Maybe there should be a separate section in the wiki to explain
> step-by-step linking issues, shared libraries, etc.
>
> FYI, below I am copy-pasting notes with respect to "./configuration" for
> GDAL compilation [*].
>
> Kindest regards, Nikos
> ---
>
> [*] GDAL related compilation notes
>
> *Must* compile without GRASS support
>
> # enter in directory gdal_stable
> cd /usr/local/src/gdal_stable
>
> # download with svn ## or update with svn up
>
> # clean previous configurations/compilations
> make distclean
>
> # configure
> CFLAGS="-g -Wall" LDFLAGS="-s" ./configure \
> --with-png=internal \
> --with-libtiff=internal \
> --with-geotiff=internal \
> --with-jpeg=internal \
> --with-gif=internal \
> --with-ecw=yes \
> --with-expat=yes \
> --with-expat-inc=/usr/include/ \
> --with-expat-lib=/usr/lib \
> --with-sqlite3=yes \
> --with-geos=yes \
> --with-python \
> --with-libz=internal \
> --with-netcdf \
> --with-sqlite \
> --with-threads=yes \
> --without-grass  \
> --without-ogdi \
> --with-pg=/usr/bin/pg_config \
> --with-xerces=yes
>
> #compile & install & ldconfig
> make  &&  sudo make install  &&  sudo ldconfig
>
>
> Where is GDAL installed?
>
> # in /usr/local/bin
> /usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
> /usr/local/bin/gdal2tiles.py \
> /usr/local/bin/gdal2xyz.py \
> /usr/local/bin/gdal_contour \
> /usr/local/bin/gdal_grid \
> /usr/local/bin/gdal_merge.py \
> /usr/local/bin/gdal_rasterize \
> /usr/local/bin/gdal_retile.py \
> /usr/local/bin/gdal_translate \
> /usr/local/bin/gdaladdo \
> /usr/local/bin/gdalchksum.py \
> /usr/local/bin/gdalenhance \
> /usr/local/bin/gdalident.py \
> /usr/local/bin/gdalimport.py \
> /usr/local/bin/gdalinfo \
> /usr/local/bin/gdalmanage \
> /usr/local/bin/gdaltindex \
> /usr/local/bin/gdaltransform \
> /usr/local/bin/gdalwarp \
>
> # in /usr/local/share \
> /usr/local/share/gdal \
>
> # in /usr/local/lib \
> /usr/local/lib/libgdal.a \
> /usr/local/lib/libgdal.la \
> /usr/local/lib/libgdal.so \
> /usr/local/lib/libgdal.so.1 \
> /usr/local/lib/libgdal.so.1.12.3 \
>
> # in  /usr/local/include/
> /usr/local/include/gdal.h \
> /usr/local/include/gdal_alg.h \
> /usr/local/include/gdal_frmts.h \
> /usr/local/include/gdal_pam.h \
> /usr/local/include/gdal_priv.h \
> /usr/local/include/gdal_rat.h \
> /usr/local/include/gdal_version.h \
> /usr/local/include/gdal_vrt.h \
> /usr/local/include/gdalgrid.h \
> /usr/local/include/gdaljp2metadata.h \
> /usr/local/include/gdalwarper.h \
>
>

Very nice ! This helped a lot. No linking error anymore.
Many thanks,

Felix