[GRASS-dev] r.external and GDAL linking

[William Kyngesburye]

I just tried r.external for the first time, and while r.external successfully created the link raster, any attempt to access the raster data results in the error "Unable to load GDAL library".

Looking at where that error comes from, I find lib/gis/gdal.c, where it's trying to dynamically load the GDAL library.  Looks like it's hardwired that way in the lib/gis makefile:

GDAL_DYNAMIC = 1

Is it safe to override this, so that libgis static-links GDAL?  It looks like the makefile and gdal.c are setup to toggle such static linking.  Shouldn't there be a configure option for this (assuming it works)?

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