[gdal-dev] ERROR 6: Failed to initialize PROJ.4 with "..."

[Chris Marsh]

Hi,

I'm using GDAL (and by extension proj.4) to reproject a set of WGS84
coordinates to North America Albers Conic Conformal.

On all but 1 computer I run my code on, this works as expected. However,
when trying to run on one of Compute Canada's newest machines, I get the
error

ERROR 6: Failed to initialize PROJ.4 with `+proj=aea +lat_1=20 +lat_2=60
+lat_0=40 +lon_0=-96 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=GRS80 +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0
+units=m +no_defs'.

I have tried building and linking against various proj.4 versions, none of
which solves this problem.

The code  is straightfoward
OGRSpatialReference insrs;
    insrs.SetWellKnownGeogCS("WGS84");

    OGRSpatialReference outsrs;
    outsrs.importFromProj4("+proj=aea +lat_1=20 +lat_2=60 +lat_0=40
+lon_0=-96 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=GRS80 +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=m
+no_defs");

    OGRCoordinateTransformation* coordTrans =  NULL;
    coordTrans = OGRCreateCoordinateTransformation(&insrs, &outsrs);

    coordTrans->Transform(1, &longitude, &latitude)

with the error appearing on the Transform call. The proj.4 string is from
using the ExportToWkt of GDAL for the WKT of Albers Conic Conformal. (long
story as to why i'm doing this). I have tried using the WKT string and that
results in the same error -- seems like it is just converted to proj.4
behind the scenes.

I am using gdal 2.2.1 and proj4 4.8 (4.9 has other issues I'm running into)

$gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/cvmfs/
soft.computecanada.ca/nix/store/lvjwgn6hpngyy6k4xqcqa9h2cxy3fl30-gfortran-5.4.0/libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.4.0/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Configured with:
Thread model: posix
gcc version 5.4.0 (GCC)

$uname -a
Linux gra-login4 3.10.0-514.21.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 25 17:04:51 UTC
2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Cheers
Chris
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