[GRASSLIST:6246] Re: GDAL install problems

Roger Bivand Roger.Bivand at nhh.no
Thu Mar 24 08:57:26 EST 2005


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Markus Neteler wrote:

> 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...

Isn't it possible that the original problem was a lack of external proj 
support - the lack of PJ* look rather like that? Where was proj installed, 
and could GDAL find it?

Roger

> 
> Markus 
> 

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