[GRASS-user] Gdal-config with 6.4svn

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:13 PM, doktoreas <thedoktor78 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everybody.
>
> Building today svn checkout, I have this error with gdal-config:
> checking whether to use GDAL... yes
> checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
> configure: error: *** Unable to locate GDAL library.
>
> 3 days ago, it built with no problem.

apparently you updated in those 3 days, see below:

> The system is an Ubuntu Hardy with Jachym's repository
>
> Gdal installed:
> libgdal1-1.4.0
> libgdal1-1.4.0-grass
> libgdal1-1.5.0
> libgdal1-dev

personally, I would not mix those versions. One version should
be enough.

> gdal related files in /usr/lib/
> libgdal1.4.0.so.1       libgdal1.4.0.so.1.11.4  libgdal1.5.0.a
> libgdal1.5.0.la         libgdal1.5.0.so         libgdal1.5.0.so.1
> libgdal1.5.0.so.1.12.1
>
> gdal-config --version:
> 1.5.1

As you can see, gdal-config points to a nonexisting library version.

It's a packager error, not a GRASS error.

Markus