[GRASS-dev] [bug #4447] (grass) Configure not finding external proj libraries

[Glynn Clements]

Request Tracker wrote:

> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=4447
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> Subject: Configure not finding external proj libraries
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> Platform: GNU/Linux/x86
> grass obtained from: Trento Italy site
> grass binary for platform: Compiled from Sources
> GRASS Version: 6.1 cvs snapshot 2006_5_10
> 
> Using my normal configuration settings for --with-proj I get the following while running the configure script:
> 
> checking for location of External PROJ.4 includes...
> checking for proj_api.h... yes
> checking External PROJ.4 version... 449
> checking for location of External PROJ.4 library...
> checking for pj_get_def in -lproj... yes
> checking for location of External PROJ.4 data files...
> configure: warning: *** External PROJ.4 directory not specified
> checking for /epsg... no
> configure: warning: *** Unable to locate PROJ data files.

You need e.g. --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj.

> checking for nad2bin... /usr/local/bin/nad2bin
> 
> Is the configuration script missing the epsg definitions?
>  
> Would this mean that Grass would not be able to use the epsg codes?
> 
> It seems as though it is finding proj.4 but not all of it.

It can find the headers and library without any help if they are in
the default search path for the compiler and linker respectively. The
data files are accessed directly, so there isn't a default path.

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