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

[Even Rouault]

On mercredi 18 octobre 2017 10:20:41 CEST Chris Marsh wrote:
> 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.

Try building --with-static-proj4 to avoid the issues with the dlopen()'ing of 
libproj.so

Check if the following works

echo 2 49 | gdaltransform -s_srs EPSG:4326 -t_srs EPSG:32632


> 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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