[GRASS-user] Error configuring grass-gdal 1.3.2: grass libs not found

[Glynn Clements]

Patton, Eric wrote:

> I recently had to recompile gdal so that support for ECW was
> enabled. I decided since I was changing my compile line, I would
> upgrade from gdal-1.3.2 to gdal-1.4.0 in the process. I ran make
> distclean in my gdal-1.3.2 directory, then configure, make, and make
> install in gdal-1.4.0, all of which proceeded without errors. 
> gdalinfo --formats reports a normal listing of supported file types. 
> Grass compiles and installs normally as well.
> 
> The trouble lies with the gdal-grass plugin. An error occurs during compilation, reporting 
> 
> configure: error: --with-grass=/usr/local/grass-6.3.cvs requested,
> but libraries not found! Perhaps you need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
> include /usr/local/grass-6.3.cvs/lib?
> 
> However, my LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to include my Grass installation driectory: 
> 
> $ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> /usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/IVS/lib:/usr/local/grass-6.3.cvs/

The last entry needs to have "lib" appended.

> My /etc/ld.so.conf also includes my Grass lib directory:
> 
> $cat /etc/ld.so.conf
> /usr/local/bin
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> /usr/local/lib
> /usr/lib
> /usr/lib/atlas
> /usr/local/grass-6.3.cvs/lib

Have you run ldconfig since adding the last line? ld.so.conf itself
has no effect upon anything except ldconfig; it's the ld.so.cache file
which ldconfig generates that is actually used for locating shared
libraries.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>