[gdal-dev] Error in GDAL compiling with HDF4

[Limei Ran]

Hi Frank:

I tried setting -fPIC based on the web site.  But, it failed as well.  I 
checked config.log file and it has errors like:
==============
/nas/uncch/depts/cep/emc/lran/mims/sa_06_2009/src/libs/HDF4.2r4/local/lib/libdf.a(cszip.o): 
In function `HCIcszip_term':
cszip.c:(.text+0x2ae): undefined reference to `SZ_BufftoBuffCompress'
===============

It appears that szip is causing the problem.  I compiled HDF5 and HDF4 
with szip-2.1.  After I compiled HDF4 without szip.  GDAL compiling 
worked. 

But, I am wondering whether I have to compile HDF5 and HDF4 with szip to 
be used  in GDAL.

Thank you,

Limei


Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> 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,