[GRASS5] Re: Current GDAL problem

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:48:01AM -0400, mberglund wrote:
> I'm walking through glass on this one guys...
> 
> I have tried for the better part of 24hours to get GDAL to compile _and_
> work with grass.
> 
> Not only do I need it for work, but I can't see how you can trust my
> binaries if r.in.gdal fails routinely.
> 
> This is the latest cvs version of GDAL (1.1.5) and grass release candidate
> 5_0_0.
> 
> I get a consistent "ERROR: Unable to initialize GDAL bridge (check
> libgdal installation)." from grass AND the bridge_test in GDAL fails
> with a similar message. I was able to get a real result only once, (after
> at least one hundred failures).
> 
> The system is suse 7.1, I have not installed anything exotic so I can't
> see how the system might be affecting this issue.
> 
> If anyone has any idea on what I can check to deal with this, I would
> welcome it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt Berglund

Matt,
 
> P.S. If it is something stupid, please remember I am not the sharpest tool
> in the shed.
nothing stupid!

A few questions:
- did GDAL compile properly?
- did you run make install on it finally (yes, why not)
- did you copy the libgdal... to $GISBASE/lib

This is just for verification,

 Markus

PS: Frank Warmerdam is also listing to this channel and may probably
    have an idea.

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