[GRASS-dev] Re: need gdal in path

[William Kyngesburye]

On Mar 26, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Michael Barton wrote:

> There are scripts, like r.in.aster, that require gdal.

I knew subconciously that there was an r.in.aster, I just didn't  
connect it with GDAL.

> And the GUI uses
> gdal_translate.
>
Oh.

> Perhaps the best thing would be to add a grass environmental variable
> GRASS_GDALPATH. This could be set by platform at runtime with  
> init.sh along
> with other variables like GRASS_PROJSHARE. This is another one.
>
> I can set these in my .profile. But it is something that the binary  
> needs to
> do at runtime for most folks if possible.
>
I'll add it back into the startup.


PS. re-cc'd to grass-dev - I think this is what you intended by using  
the old grass5 address.

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