[gdal-dev] Trouble building GDAL 3.12.3 on Linux

[Carl Godkin]

Hi everyone,

OF COURSE that was the problem.  I wonder why I've never run into this
problem in the past.   But maybe the undefined references were not in the
previous PROJ (which was in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

I'm all set now.  Thanks VERY much,

carl

On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 10:51 AM Andrew Bell <andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You need to make sure that the reference to the proj library that's in
> libgdal can be found at link time for the test_ogrsf executable. You
> can do this by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to the
> directory containing the relevant proj library. You could also edit
> the link line to include a reference to that directory (see the
> -rpath-link option). I would think that an RPATH entry would be
> created in the GDAL library when it's built, which would take care of
> this, but I'm not sure why this wouldn't be happening without a bunch
> of investigation.
>
> This might be helpful:
>
> https://www.kaizou.org/2015/01/linux-libraries.html
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 12:42 PM Carl Godkin via gdal-dev
> <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks to Seabastiaan's advice, I've rerun the cmake command and now the
> "make" gives this for the failing step:
> >
> > [ 95%] Linking CXX executable test_ogrsf
> > cd /home/carl/build/gdal-3.12.3/linux64_build/apps && /usr/bin/cmake -E
> cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/test_ogrsf.dir/link.txt --verbose=1
> > /usr/local/gcc132/bin/g++  -fvisibility=hidden -O3 -DNDEBUG
> CMakeFiles/test_ogrsf.dir/test_ogrsf.cpp.o -o test_ogrsf
> -Wl,-rpath,/home/carl/build/gdal-3.12.3/linux64_build
> ../libgdal.so.38.3.12.3
> >
> /net/raid1/home/local64-rhel8/gcc132-rhel8/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/13.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
> ../libgdal.so.38.3.12.3: undefined reference to
> `proj_coordinate_metadata_create'
> >
> /net/raid1/home/local64-rhel8/gcc132-rhel8/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/13.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
> ../libgdal.so.38.3.12.3: undefined reference to
> `proj_crs_has_point_motion_operation'
> > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[2]: *** [apps/CMakeFiles/test_ogrsf.dir/build.make:101:
> apps/test_ogrsf] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/carl/build/gdal-3.12.3/linux64_build'
> > make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:8647:
> apps/CMakeFiles/test_ogrsf.dir/all] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/carl/build/gdal-3.12.3/linux64_build'
> > make: *** [Makefile:149: all] Error 2
> >
> > Does that help?  Thanks a lot,
> >
> > carl
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 4/6/26 6:12 PM, Carl Godkin via gdal-dev wrote:
> >> > Thanks for the reply.   The actual command is always hidden by
> cmake.  (I
> >> > am obviously not a cmake expert!)  Is there a way to get it to reveal
> more?
> >>
> >> -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON
> >>
> >>
> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE.html
> >>
> >> Kind Regards,
> >>
> >> Bas
> >>
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