[GRASS-user] Error creating new mapset

[Jose A. Ruiz-Arias]

El Monday 14 January 2008 00:34:52 Glynn Clements escribió:
> Jose A. Ruiz-Arias wrote:
> > i have installed GRASS-6.2.3 from source code with no apparent errors
> > during configuration, compilation and installation. However, when i run
> > grass and try to create a new mapset i get next error:
> >
> > g.region: error while loading shared libraries: libgdal.so.1: cannot open
> > shared object file: Error 40
> >
> > In fact, when i was setting the projection parameters and chose a UTM
> > projection, the program did not ask me for the UTM zone, the ellipsoid
> > and the datum.
> >
> > In the GRASS configure process I explicitely used the
> > flag --with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config and there were no errors. I
> > checked for the shared library and it is placed in /usr/local/lib
> > directory.
> >
> > Before the GRASS installation, I installed the GDAL/OGR bundle from the
> > source code, with netcdf support, and the GRASS support disabled. Again,
> > there were no apparent errors. Next I installed the gdal-grass plugin
> > (gdal-grass-1.4.3 with the following options:
> > configure --with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config
> > --with-grass=/usr/local/grass-6.2.3)
> >
> > I did not detect any problem during the installation of these bundles.
> > Anyone knows about the problem??
>
> Most systems won't load shared libraries from /usr/local/lib without
> some additional configuration.
>
> For Linux, you need to either set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment
> variable to a path which includes /usr/local/lib, or add
> /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf then run ldconfig (as root).

Thanks a lot for your hints. GRASS is now working.

José A.