[GRASSLIST:6245] Re: GDAL install problems

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:38:22PM -0800, David Kramer wrote:
> 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.

It's important to compile ogdi with external PROJ support, otherwise
it all crashes. Just learned it the hard way...

Markus