[GRASSLIST:4671] Re: Compiling Grass

[Glynn Clements]

Paul Kelly wrote:

> > Anyway, I installed the now compiled 5.3 and then tried gdal. It still
> > cannot find the grass libraries, I'm telling it where its been installed,
> > trying :
> 
> You don't need GRASS support in GDAL. That is only if you want GDAL to be 
> able to read GRASS databases for some third party application.

Almost. The r.out.gdal script in 5.7 relies upon gdal_translate being
able to read GRASS databases, i.e. using a version of GDAL which was
built with GRASS support.

OTOH, r.in.gdal doesn't require GDAL to have GRASS support.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>