[Liblas-devel] ./configure --with-gdal

[Howard Butler]

liblas 1.2.1 is also available via DebianGIS as a binary and linked against GDAL in testing.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/libl/liblas.html


On May 21, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Bruce RAUP wrote:

> Peter,
> 
> You can add a package archive to your system's list of sources that specializes in geospatial software, which makes it very easy to install gdal, grass, qgis, and other related software on your Ubuntu 10.04 system. See
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable?field.series_filter=lucid
> 
> and the docs therein.
> 
> [BTW, I'm a relatively new subscriber to this list, mainly just to keep tabs on the goings-on with liblas.  I work at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), and was on the telecon recently with Howard and Dave...]
> 
> Best regards,
> Bruce
> 
> 2010-05-20, 16:19:  Peter Tittmann wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've migrated to on Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS and am having some issues with
>> liblas install.
>> 
>> GDAL:
>> 
>> Ive installed the latest stable version (1.7.2) from source.
>> 
>> LIBGEOTIFF:
>> Ive installed the latest version (1.3.0) from source.
>> 
>> LibLAS:
>> http://trac.liblas.org/attachment/wiki/1.2.1/liblas-src-1.2.1.tar.gz
>> 
>> Problem 1 references the previous email which I was never able to resolve:
>> 
>> when running ./configure --with-gdal --with-geotiff=/usr/lib
>> 
>> i get this:
>> 
>> checking for stdio.h... yes
>> checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
>> checking for debug enabled... no
>> checking for GDAL... GDAL enabled with gdal-config found in PATH
>> /usr/local/bin/gdal-config reports version 1.7.2
>> checking for ST_Create in -lgeotiff... no
>> checking for libgeotiff... no
>> configure: error: You must configure a libgeotiff if you are using GDAL
>> binaries.  You can configure using a GDAL source tree without
>> libgeotiff, but not from binaries.
>> 
>> so i resigned to not having GDAL and ran ./configure make make install
>> with no errors witch lead to Problem2:
>> when I try to use the command line tools i get the following:
>> $ lasinfo ~/Documents/LiDAR/laswork/big_sub19_fr.las
>> lasinfo: error while loading shared libraries: liblas.so.1: cannot open
>> shared object file: No such file or directory
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any guidance.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Peter
>> 
>> 
>> On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Howard Butler wrote:
>>> On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Peter Tittmann wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Two issues I encountered. First attempting to build from the mercurial repository:
>>>> 
>>>> $ sudo ./autogen.sh
>>>> Running aclocal -I m4
>>>> ./autogen.sh: 30: aclocal: not found
>>>> 
>>> You need to install aclocal, autoconf, and automake to be able to build libLAS from the mercurial repository.   These are all most likely in a single package for your distribution.
>>> 
>>>> checking for GDAL... GDAL enabled with gdal-config found in PATH
>>>> /usr/bin/gdal-config reports version 1.5.4
>>>> checking for libgeotiff... no
>>>> configure: error: You must configure a libgeotiff if you are using GDAL binaries.  You can configure using a GDAL source tree without libgeotiff, but not from binaries.
>>>> 
>>>> Any suggestions on either issue will be most gratefully welcomed...
>>>> 
>>> If you give configure the path to gdal-config, you will also need to give it the location of libgeotiff.  By providing binary GDAL support, you enable libLAS to take advantage of coordinate system operations and enable the las2ogr command, but you do not give it geotiff keys support.  That must be provided separately.
>>> 
>>> Howard
>>> 
>>> PS, you can give --with-gdal the path to an as-built GDAL source tree to take advantage of GDAL's internal support for libtiff/libgeotiff, but this is a development hack and it shouldn't be your normal operational mode.
>> 
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> 
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