[GRASS-dev] compiling GRASS fails at configure, unable to locate GDAL library

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Paulo van Breugel
<p.vanbreugel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Paulo van Breugel
>> <p.vanbreugel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 29-10-15 11:38, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> >> This is not recommended - instead use the GDAL-GRASS plugin to
>> >> disentangle them properly.
>> >
>> > Thanks Marcus for the feedback. Yes I did compile GDAL with GRASS
>> > support,
>> > mostly because using the GDAL-GRASS plugin has always been problematic,
>>
>> ... indeed it is asking for troubles :)
>> That's why the plugin was developed.
>
>
> I know that is the idea. However, for me since I started to use GRASS 7 it
> has been the other way around for me.

Yes - but it was simply not working, so that's no surprise...

> Getting things to work with the plugin
> has always provided me with much more (unsolvable) trouble than the
> admittedly more cumbersome compiling GDAL with GRASS support route. The last
> time I gave it a try was about half a year or bit more ago I think, so
> perhaps things have improved since.

Probably yes:

September 2015
https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.11.3-News
--> Build (Unix)
    Support custom buildflags in GRASS plugin (#5850)
    GRASS 7.0.0 support (#5852)

[...]

> I still agree I should try to use the GDAL-GRASS plugin instead of using
> GDAL compiled with GRASS support. Will do that when I have a little bit more
> time at hand.
>
> Thanks for the feedback Marcus, appreciated.

You are welcome,

Markus