[GRASS5] What's holding 5.3.0 release?

[Paul Kelly]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Glynn Clements wrote:

>
> John Gillette wrote:
>
> > For r.in.gdal, I made a small attempt to understand why some
> > people were having seg-fault problems. I still don't understand
> > this.
>
> That's OK; nor does anyone else ;)
>
> Seriously, there are a variety of reasons why r.in.gdal segfaults;
> some of those reasons are better understood than others.
>
> Some specifics which increase the likelyhood of r.in.gdal working are:
>
> 1. Using --with-gdal, so libgdal is linked directly rather than loaded
> dynamically with dlopen().
>
> 2. Building GDAL with the --without-grass switch.
>
> > Is there a difference in r.in.gdal in 5.3?
>
> Only that --with-gdal is now the default.

Also: last week I removed an erroneous free() call, which perhaps has the
potential to clear up a lot of obscure problems.