[GRASS5] Solaris, GRASS 5.1, and Proj

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 12 08:09:17 EDT 2003


> > (1)  When I tried to configure with proj, configure failed while
> > trying to find proj_api.h.  But proj_api.h does not exist in either
> > snapshot.  So I added --without_proj to the configure.
> 
> You need to have an external PROJ library from remotesensing.org
> installed, version 4.4.6 or later. GRASS 5.7 (as it is now) does not
> include the internal copy of PROJ any more so an external PROJ is an
> absolute requirement. This should probably be documented somewhere;
> I'm not familiar with all the 5.1/5.7 documentation and am not sure
> where is the best place; can you suggest a file this information could
> be added to?


Perhaps a hint ("Is PROJ.4 installed? See INSTALL file.") in the error
message when configure fails to find proj_api.h? Or is that not
possible/desirable.


H




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