[gdal-dev] Compiling GDAL with HDF4 support

[Hernán De Angelis]

On 2021-02-08 10:09, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2021, Hernán De Angelis wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> I am trying to compile GDAL 3.2.1 with HDF4 4.2.15. HDF4 is in 
>> /usr/local and subdirectories, but GDAL configure (--with-hdf4) 
>> complains:
>>
>> checking for SDreaddata in -lmfhdfalt... 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 "yes", but neither 
>> hdf4 nor mfhdf lib found
>>
>>
>> Yet, in /usr/local/lib64 I find:
>>
>> /usr/local/lib64/libhdf4.settings
>> /usr/local/lib64/libmfhdf.a
>> /usr/local/lib64/libmfhdf.la
>>
>>
>> Am I missing something? Working in openSUSE Tumbleweed.
>
> Possibly something like
>     configure --with-hdf4=/usr/local/lib64
> rather than
>     configure --with-hdf4
> ?
>
Thanks for your suggestion, Andrew, but I tried that of course before 
and did not work. Same result.

/H.