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

[Chris Marsh]

I was wondering if anyone had thoughts on this? I posted to the proj.4
list, but seems like this may be a gdal problem and not proj.4 as the
proj.4 command line has no problem with this string.
I have also tried the  newest gdal without success.
Cheers
Chris

On 12 October 2017 at 11:41, Chris Marsh <chris.marsh at usask.ca> wrote:

> 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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