[GRASS-user] Help compiling under fedore 5 - "couldn't find gdal-config"

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Ian, 

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:49:31 +1000 Ian Allan <iallan at geocode.com.au>
wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I taking the advice of messages surrounding darrel maddy's nviz
> problem (mine too), I decided to download the
> grass-6.0.2.tar.gz     source file & compile it. After typing in
> CFLAGS=-g -Wall" ./configure       as per the instructions I get a
> "couldn't find gdal-config"     message. I have installed (and
> uninstalled and reinstalled)...
> 
> gdal-1.3.1-2.i386  and   
> gdal-bin-1.3.1-2.i386.

AFAIK you need gdal-devel or something where the needed
gdal-config-script is mostly located.

Please check with your installation if the package is available.

Then GRASS should find the needed libs.

Best
	Stephan

> 
> When I do a     "locate gdal"      I get reference to a number of
> files in the following directories...
> 
> /usr/bin
> /usr/lib  ( including    libgdal.so.1   and    libgdal.so.1.9.0)
> /usr/share/gdal
> 
> However, in no directory is there such a file called "gdal" as is 
> suggested by the error message.
> 
> On and off over the last couple of years (for days and sometimes
> weeks at a time) I have been trying to get GRASS working. I even
> purchased a dedicated linux machine-GRASS following difficulties with
> cygwin-GRASS under windows. Still I could not get the full suite to
> work so I recently rebuilt my system using fedora core 5 in the hope
> that would work. Alas, more tears. I am at my witts end.
> 
> P L E A S E    CAN SOMEONE HELP.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ian Allan
> 
> 
> 
> 


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