[GRASS-dev] GRASS and GDAL 1.4.1 MingW

[Benjamin Ducke]

Cool. That fixed it. I think I am getting slowly to the point where
I understand all the details of the MinGW compile process.
I hope I'll be able to report back with some debugging news concerning
the Win32 DBF.EXE deadlocks soon.

Best, Benjamin

Paul Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> 
>> I just tried installing the GDAL version contained in the
>> wingrass-extralibs package:
>>
>> http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/WinGRASS_Current_Status
>>
>> following the precise steps as outlined here:
>>
>> http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/WinGRASS_Current_Status
>>
>> With a fresh update of GRASS CVS
>>
>> Still the same configure error:
>>
>> checking for gdal-config... /usr/local/bin/gdal-config
>> checking for GDALOpen... no
>> checking for GDALOpen... no
>> configure: error: *** couldn't find GDAL
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Look in config.log to see what the error is and you should be able to
> work it out from there. However I suspect you may need to change the
> paths at the top of the gdal-config script to match where you have
> actually installed it, rather than where I installed it before I
> generated wingrass-extralibs.tar.gz. It's not designed to be fool-proof,
> just a help to save effort in compiling all the other libraries.
> Although maybe long-term we could move away from using the gdal-config
> command in the configure script to get away from problems like  this. I
> think everything its used for should probably be able to be achieved
> without it.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 

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