[GRASS-dev] GRASS and GDAL 1.4.1 MingW

[Glynn Clements]

Paul Kelly wrote:

> 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.

I wouldn't be so sure.

GDAL can require a *lot* of other libraries (by its nature, it's a
front-end to various raster data libraries), some of which might be in
non-obvious locations, and may have substantial dependencies of their
own.

AFAICT, the only alternative is to provide a --with-gdal-ldflags=
switch and require the user to specify exactly which flags are
required to link against GDAL.

Implementing such a switch would be straightforward; getting the
average user (or developer) to figure out what value to provide would
be rather less straightforward.

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