[GRASSLIST:4097] Re: r.in.gdal question

[Kevin Slover]

Thanks Glynn,

I figured as much.  I am using RH7.2, and I had thought I had installed
GDAL, but from the looks of it, I did not.  Will I need to re-install GRASS
if I install GDAL??



Glynn Clements wrote:

> Kevin Slover wrote:
>
> > I am attempting to use r.in.gdal to import a bsb raster chart.  I have
> > read in the documentation pages for gdal that it supports bsb.  Does
> > this hold true for GRASS5??  Another problem that I have experienced
> > with r.in.gdal is the following error:
> >
> > GBBridgeInitialize() failed to find an suitable GDAL .DLL/.so file.
> > The following filenames were searched for:
> >   o libgdal.1.1.so
> >   o gdal.1.0.so
> >   o gdal.so.1.0
> >   o libgdal.so.1
> >
> > The following locations were searched:
> >   o /usr/local/grass5/lib
> >   o System default locations.
> >
> >
> > System default locations may be influenced by:
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH = /usr/local/grass5/lib
> > ERROR: Unable to initialize GDAL bridge (check libgdal
> >        installation/LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable).
> >
> > Is this a user error??  I am using pre3 or pre4, can't remember which
> > one...  thanks!!
>
> 1. What OS are you using?
>
> 2. Have you installed the GDAL library?
>
> Binary versions of GRASS should include libgdal, although it could
> have been omitted. It isn't included in the GRASS source code. If you
> built GRASS from source, r.in.gdal will compile even if GDAL isn't
> installed, but it won't run (it will produce an error like the one
> above).
>
> --
> Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>

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