[gdal-dev] Error in GDAL compiling with HDF4

[Frank Warmerdam]

Limei Ran wrote:
...
> 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 
> "/nas/uncch/depts/cep/emc/lran/mims/sa_06_2009/src/libs/HDF4.2r4/local", 
> but neither hdf4 nor mfhdf lib found
> ===========================
> 
> I compiled HDF4 with: --disable-netcdf --disable-fortran and I did not 
> compile GDAL with netcdf.  When I got rid of HDF4 in gdal configure, the 
> configuration went through.
> 
> The config.log has a lot of errors related to conftest.c like:
...
> Could you tell me what went wrong in this gdal compiling with hdf4 ?

Limei,

I think you need to find the part of the config.log that relates to hdf to
find out what went wrong.  I think one common problem is building the HDF
library without -fPIC.

You might also check:
  http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/HDF

and consider updating it if you learn something likely to be of broader use.

Best regards,
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