[GRASSLIST:6228] Re: GDAL install problems

[Hamish]

> I'm trying to install GRASS 6.0 from the tarball. It seems to require
> GDAL, which I don't need. I can't install GDAL, due to problems with
> that distro, so I'd like to have GRASS not use GDAL. I pass
> with-gdal=no into configure, but I get this:
> 
> checking whether to use GDAL... no
> checking for GDALOpen... no
> checking for GDALOpen... no
> configure: error: *** Unable to locate GDAL library.
> 
> Why does it want the GDAL library when it knows that it should not use
> GDAL? Any suggestions for hacks to get around this?

try --without-gdal ? probably same results.


What's the problem building GDAL?
Without it GRASS is rather isolated. It's highly recommended.

 
> P.S. If whoever maintains the GRASS mailing list home page is
> listening, the links off of it are pretty broken. For example, the
> using the search field gives an internal server error, the Google
> links pass you off to Google's regular homepage, and not a search of
> GRASS-Help etc.
 
Note the Users list box links to an offsite search page (broken), the
main search page works ok. (look for the "Search these lists" box above
the mailing-list table)

try here:
  http://grass.ibiblio.org/searchgrass.php

  (ht/Dig seems to return no hits from there though?)



Hamish