[GRASSLIST:5409] Re: problems with grass 6.0 beta

[Andy Bernat]

Roger,
Thanks for the excellent advice.  After editting ld.so.conf and running 
ldconfig everything worked fine
Best regards,
Andy Bernat

Roger Bivand wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Andy Bernat wrote:
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>>Greetings,
>>I just downloaded and compiled grass-6.0.0beta1.  At first I got 
>>configure errors because gdal libraries couldn't be found.  After I 
>>installed gdal 1.2.5 (without grass support because no matter what 
>>directories I specified, it couldn't find the grass libraries), there 
>>were no errors after configure and make.  When I started grass60, it 
>>loaded the initial tcl menu where I chose my mapset but then I got the 
>>following error:
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>>Error in startup script: ps.map: error while loading shared libraries: 
>>libgdal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>    while executing
>>"exec ps.map -p"
>>    (procedure "DmPrint::init" line 14)
>>    invoked from within
>>"DmPrint::init"
>>    (procedure "main" line 31)
>>    invoked from within
>>"main $argc $argv"
>>    (file "/usr/local/grass-6.0.0beta1/etc/dm/d.m.tcl" line 890)
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>>The puzzling thing is the shared library libgdal.so.1 seems to be alive 
>>and well.  Can anyone tell me how to fix this?  I looked in the files 
>>indicated but I don't know enough to know what really went wrong.  
>>Thanks in advance for any advice.
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>This is a Linux system, isn't it?
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>Does "alive and well" mean that it is in /usr/local/lib, or that it is in 
>/usr/local/lib (or wherever) and that directory is in /etc/ld.so.conf and 
>you've run ldconfig since installing gdal (sorry if this is obvious, but 
>it's a hole lots of us fall into, even if we do know better)? Editing 
>/etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig are for root. Does running gdalinfo 
>from the shell prompt work:
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>$ gdalinfo --version
>GDAL 1.2.5.0, released 2004/11/22
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>for example?
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>Good luck, 
>
>Roger
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>>-Andy.
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