[GRASS-user] hdf4 missing in gdal 1.6.1-2

[Craig Leat]

sela wrote:
> I just killed gdal 1.6.1-2 and reinstalled gdal-bin 1.5.2-3, and now
> everything works, my ASTER-HDF images are readable again. But I am still
> wondering why they do not include the hdf4-library in the latest
> gdal-version?

This may be a packaging problem. See gdal wiki for details, under the
section "Potential conflicts with internal libz":

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/HDF

Craig