[GRASS-user] Unable to select EPSG code for location

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:00 AM, RichardC <richtcooper at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After installing 6.4.2 from source,

Please tell us on which operating system.

> attempting to insert a spatial reference
> system for a new location (/Select EPSG code for spatial reference system/)
> was giving an error that it was unable to find EPSG codes at
> /usr/local/share/proj/epsg

Please tell us how you installed PROJ4 (self compiled or package)?

> The configuration commands (--with-proj-share="/usr/share/proj/" ) did not
> seem to make a difference?

It depends.

> My solution was to copy the proj directory and contents from /usr/share/proj
> to to /usr/local/share
> sudo cp -r /usr/share/proj /usr/local/share/

That's likely no good idea and not needed.

> Has anyone else encountered this problem, or perhaps my configuration
> options below need amending?
>
> ./configure \
...
> --with-proj-share="/usr/share/proj/" \

Tell us what exactly the problem is (copy paste of error).

Markus