[GRASS-dev] GRASS 8.0 support in GDAL and QGIS

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 7:24 AM Sebastiaan Couwenberg
<sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 2/24/22 15:23, Vaclav Petras wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 at 03:33, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> >> Should we perhaps take this opportunity to move the grass libraries to
> >> default library search paths as raised on the debian-gis list?
> >>
> >>    https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2021/12/msg00023.html
> >
> > I vote yes. I think the reasons to do this are no longer valid. Doing it
> > the standard way seems to me to be the best way forward. Any
> > suggestions/PRs?
>
> Not using --prefix=/usr/lib will violate FHS, so not an option for the
> Debian package.
>
> Are users of libgdal-grass expected to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH like the
> grass executable does to find the grass libraries?

In
https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_install_GDAL-GRASS_plugin#Compilation_and_Installation_of_the_GDAL-GRASS_plugin

the creation of a LD_LIBRARY_PATH file is suggested:
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/grass.conf

Markus