[GRASS-user] Building gdal for use with grass and MrSid

[Rainer M Krug]

Hi

I have to compile gdal from source as I need MrSid support (I have a 
huge number of MrSid files and I don't have enough HDD space to convert 
them to geotiff...). Therefore I have to compile gdal myself. As I want 
to have the same functuonality of GRASS 6 with gdal, I am wondering: 
which options should I set to get a gdal with all the "standard" 
functuanality as in the SuSE 10.2 package.

I would compile gdal 1.4.4 with MrSid support from source and use 
checkinstall to create the rpm which I would then install.

In addition: I have four rpms with gdal installed, namely

libgdal0-1.4.2-2.1
libgdal-devel-1.4.2-2.1
libgdal-grass-1.4.1-1.7
gdal-1.4.2-2.1

would any of the libgdal packages affected when I install gdal from 
source? If yes, how can I compile and install them?


Thanks,

Rainer