[GRASS-user] r.in.gdal -f bug?

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 9 18:16:06 EDT 2006


Wolfgang wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is a bug, but when I try:
> 	r.in.gdal -f  (to list all formats) I get:
> 
> ERROR: Required parameter <input> not set:
>      (Raster file to be imported).
> 
> ERROR: Required parameter <output> not set:
>      (Name of output raster map).
[..]
> I would expect that -f should work without any input and output maps 
> given and this should give the same output as gdal_translate --formats
> ?

It's a limitation of the parser; you need to give it dummy values:

r.in.gdal -f in=foo out=bar


> PS: would it we possible for the next binary release for cygwin to 
> compile gdal with ecw support? I really appreciate that someone
> provides the cygwin installation packages (as I don't know how to
> compile all on my self)!

You'll have to check the ecw software license and beg the package
maintainer directly.


Hamish




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