[GRASS5] GDAL requirement confusion

[William Kyngesburye]

I'm a little confused.  I was playing with building a trimmed-down  
GRASS, and it seems to require GDAL.  The requirements.html for GRASS  
6.0 says GDAL is optional, yet for 6.1CVS it's moved to a requirement.

Even tho it says it's optional for 6.0, when I try to configure -- 
without-gdal configure quits because it can't find GDAL (configure  
bug?  like a misplaced if..fi block).

checking whether to use GDAL... no
checking for GDALOpen... no
checking for GDALOpen... no
configure: error: *** Unable to locate GDAL library.

And when I specify --without-gdal for 6.1, it accepts that and does  
configure for no GDAL (but it's a requirement!).  Everything still  
builds, and runs (except gdal/ogr modules of course), as expected.

If GDAL is just for importing/exporting extra data formats, why the  
stated requirement in 6.1?  mistake?

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