More GDAL problems

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at POBOX.COM
Wed Jun 27 14:41:25 PDT 2007


Alan Hale wrote:
> On Fedora Linux - I've installed GDAL as part of FWTools package and now
> trying to re-configure Mapserver with GDAL. I've put the path to FWTools
> in  bash_profile  but the Mapserver config can't find it without help.
> So I put --with-gdal=/[path to]/FWTools-1.3.2/bin_safe/gdal-config. This
> works - but when I add other options (e.g. --with-proj) - the Mapserver
> config fails to find gdal-config. I've trie dputting --with-gdal first
> in the options list but this does not make any difference. Very odd.

Alan,

FWTools isn't really intended for building other packages on top of.
In theory, it might work but little care goes into make sure it will.
So I am not sure your basic idea is prudent.

Also, FWTools does include a MapServer build.  Is this unsuitable for
your use for some reason?

Best regards,
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