[GRASS-dev] r.out.gdal2 -> r.out.gdal?

[Glynn Clements]

Michael Barton wrote:

> > What do you mean by a "full" install? GRASS needs GDAL regardless of
> > r.{in,out}.gdal.
> > 
> > You will need GDAL headers and library to build r.out.gdal, and the
> > library to run it.
> > 
> > OTOH, GDAL won't need to be built with GRASS support, so you don't
> > need to build GDAL without GRASS, build GDAL, then build it again with
> > GRASS (unless you need GDAL to have GRASS support for some other
> 
> Actually, it appears that I really had two questions. One you've answered.
> The other is will GDAL need to be installed for GRASS binaries to work after
> it has been built?

If you build GRASS against shared GDAL libraries, you will need those
libraries to run GRASS. If you use static GDAL libraries, you don't
need those to run GRASS, although you will still need any of GDAL's
dependencies which are themselves shared libraries.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>