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

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 2/25/22 08:33, Markus Neteler wrote:
> 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 I think the reasons to do this are no longer valid.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

That violates the Debian policy, and triggers a lintian error:

"
  It is not okay to install libraries in a different directory and then
  modify the run-time link path. Shared libraries should go into
  /usr/lib. Alternatively, they can require binaries to set the RPATH to
  find the library.
"

  https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-modifies-ld.so-search-path

Kind Regards,

Bas

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