[GRASSLIST:3689] Re: importing sdts dem maps into grass on a macos x machine

[Eric G. Miller]

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:07:05AM -0500, John Magdaleno wrote:
> My immediate goal is to import 7.5min SDTS DEM data that I acquired from 
> geocomm into GRASS.
> 
> http://grass.ibiblio.org/faq/importing_usgs_7_5min.html suggests that I 
> acquire and use fips123 and sdts utilities, however, I am unable to 
> compile the sdts utilities. In lieu of that, I have tried using 
> r.in.gdal in GRASS, however, I get a "dyld: r.in.gdal can't open 
> library: ./libgdal.1.1.dylib (No such file or directory, error = 2)" 
> message.
> 
> libgdal.1.1.dylib exists in my /usr/local/grass5/lib directory.
> 
> I know that I am confusing a couple of things here: (a) getting the SDTS 
> utilities to compile, and (b) using r.in.gdal, however, I would 
> appreciate any advice on how to import my SDTS DEM data.
> 
> Does anyone have any insight into these problems?

Not especially, but try 
'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/grass5/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"'
before running r.in.gdal.  The grass startup script should be doing that
already though (echo "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" to see...).

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>