[GRASS-dev] compila grass on fedora31: configure: error: *** Unable to locate GDAL library.

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Pietro,

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 1:13 PM Pietro <peter.zamb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear devs,
>
> I have an issue when I try to configure ad compile grass.
> At the moment I'm on Fedora 31. So I installed the default gdal (2.3.2) with:
>
> `sudo dnf install gdal gdal-devel gdal-libs`
>
> I executed locally gdalinfo on a tif and it provide the information of the raster and then I checked the installation paths with:
>
> ```
> $ /usr/bin/gdal-config --version
> 2.3.2
> $ /usr/bin/gdal-config --libs
> -L/usr/lib64 -lgdal
> $ /usr/bin/gdal-config --cflags
> -I/usr/include/gdal
> $ /usr/bin/gdal-config --datadir
> /usr/share/gdal
> ```
>
> So it seems to work, then my configure command is:
>
> ```
> $ CFLAGS="-g -O1 -Wall -Wextra -Wundef -Wfloat-equal -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -Wstrict-overflow=5 -Wwrite-strings  -Wshadow -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Waggregate-return -Wcast-qual -Wswitch-default -Wswitch-enum -Wconversion -Wunreachable-code -Winit-self -Wuninitialized -fno-common -fexceptions -fstack-protector -fmudflap -m64 -mtune=native" \
> CXXFLAGS="-g -O1 -Wall" \
> ./configure \
>     --prefix=$HOME/.local \
>     --with-zstd \
>     --with-blas --with-blas-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \
>     --with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \
>     --with-cxx \
>     --with-cairo \
>     --with-freetype \
>     --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
>     --with-geos \
>     --with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \

^-- this is the only GDAL related line in my "configure" call (also Fedora).

>     --with-gdal-includes=/usr/include/gdal \
>     --with-gdal-libs=/usr/lib64 \
>     --with-gdal-share=/usr/share/gdal \

^- these three I would not specify.

>     --with-nls \
>     --with-netcdf \
>     --with-odbc \
>     --with-openmp \
>     --with-postgres \
>     --with-python=/usr/bin/python3-config \
>     --with-readline \
>     --with-proj \
>     --with-pthread \
>     --with-sqlite \
>     --with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config
> ```
>
> But I get the following error:
> ```
> checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for gcc... gcc
> [...]
> checking whether to use GDAL... yes
> checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
> configure: error: *** Unable to locate GDAL library.
> ```
>
> Do you understand why I still receive this error even if I specify all the paths of the gdal iclude/libs/share directories?
> Any ideas on how to solve/fix this issue?

- I would not specify them
- and: check the error in `config.log`

Markus