[GRASS-user] Re: GRASS 7 configuration with libLas

[Markus Metz]

ahmadou dicko wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Trying to compile GRASS 7 I had an issue similar to the one on this thread :
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2011-May/054559.html
>
> I built the latest version of libLAs from repository (version 1.7) and it's
> appear that on ubuntu the shared library have  different name than those of
> previous version of libLAs .
>
> So my guess is that GRASS wait for liblas.so and liblas_c.so but in
> /usr/local/lib there are only liblas.so.2.0 and liblas_c.so.2.0 (for newer
> version of libLAs --someone can confirm ?)
>
> So to fix this problem, I create some symlink like this
>
> sudo ln -s liblas.so.2.0 liblas.so
> sudo ln -s liblas_c.so.2.0 liblas_c.so
>
> Hope this will help
>
> There is another work around for this problem ?

You also need to install the devel package of libLAS. This will
provide liblas.so and liblas_c.so and the headers necessary to compile
GRASS 7 with libLAS support.

Markus M