[GRASSLIST:6242] Re: GDAL install problems

David Kramer davidk at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 20:38:22 EST 2005


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:49:20 +1200, Hamish wrote:

> > B.t.w. While GRASS looks pretty neat, all I need it for right now is
> > to convert .dlg files into ESRI shapefiles. If anyone on this list
> > knows a better way to do this conversion, then we can finesse this
> > whole issue.
> 
> Then you will definitely need GDAL. You can use the 'ogr2ogr' program it
> makes to do the conversion without GRASS. Of course GRASS is a great
> front end for GDAL/OGR and will be needed for any advanced processing. :)
> 
> OGR SDTS-DLG page:
>  http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_sdts.html

Hamish,

I managed to get GDAL to build by passing in --with-ogdi=no, since
ogdi was the source of the problem. Indeed ogr2ogr looks like the
solution to my problem.

Thanks for your help!

David




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