[GRASS5] Re: GDAL binaries for OSX

[Scott Mitchell]

I'd like to help out on this, and have started writing a page on notes  
specific to setting up GRASS on OS X.  I'll make it available for  
previewing soon, would like to get comments.  I am experienced at  
kludging things together on OS X, as well as Solaris and Linux, and  
have been collecting information from the mailing list for a while.  I  
am not an expert programmer, though, so will keep running into walls  
and needing help to get around them.

GDAL and GRASS are not impossible without fink, but fink certainly  
makes it easier.  I think in general, the type of person that can get  
all of the other required bits compiled and in place without fink can  
also handle GRASS compilation better than most, so we don't have to  
worry so much about them.  The Linux-world comparison would be to say  
that you can download and install "manually" all the pieces that are  
needed for GRASS to work by yourself, but many of them are easier to  
get / already provided by default in a packaged linux system like  
RedHat/Debian/Mandrake etc... (in .debs, .rpms, ...).  The extra  
complication is that many of these pieces are already installed by  
default on a typical Linux installation, whereas they need to be added  
to an OS X system before it can get GRASS going.  Apple has included  
more of the typical tools with the OS and its development system as the  
OS has matured, so this is getting simpler.

Having said that, fink is not even the ONLY package manager for OS X -  
I know of at least one other packaging project.  But fink is the one I  
am familiar with, so it's the one I can give somewhat experienced  
advice with.

Regarding making things available for download, one reason I haven't  
stepped in faster is that my network connection here is still  
sub-standard.  I may be able to arrange some hosting with a colleague  
at another university, but for now am concentrating on putting  
information together that presumably can be added to the web site.

Thanks, Markus, for all your efforts on this !

Cheers,
Scott

On 9-Dec-03, at 05:00, Markus Neteler wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:42:53PM +1300, Hamish wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> just downloaded the GDAL binary for OSX from
>> http://mpa.itc.it/markus/grass57/macosx/
>
> Hi Hamish,
>
> in a few days this page will be reomved :-)
> I am waiting for a person to take over these efforts,
> so I'll leave it as-is for now.
>
> [...]
>> dyld: ../bin/gdalinfo can't open library:  
>> /Users/markus/gdal/gdal-1.1.9-cvs-30-oct-2003-linux-bin/lib/ 
>> libgdal.1.dylib  (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
>> Trace/BPT trap
>
> Looks like a path problem.
>
> [...]
>> Note 1: Fink must be installed for this GDAL install.
>
> Yes. I thought that GDAL/GRASS without FINK is impossible?
>
>> Note 2: the above webpage ask you to copy non-existant files to  
>> /sw/include
>
> Sorry. The next maintainer will do better.
>
>>
>> thanks,
>> Hamish
>> (who knows very little about OSX)
>
> I know nothing about OSX, that's why I will leave it to others.
>
> Markus
>
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