[Ubuntu] ubuntu configure options for gdal

[Agustin Lobo]

Jason,
I understand that the script gdal-mrsid-build no longer works for
modern ubuntu versions
and that gdal must be compiled with Mrsid/ecw support. Could you post
directions for this?
Thanks
Agus

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Jason Paul Joines <jason at joines.org> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: ubuntu configure options for gdal
> From: Jason Paul Joines <jason at joines.org>
> To: UbuntuGIS Users <ubuntu at lists.osgeo.org>
> Date: 2013.04.17.Wed.21:00:36
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: ubuntu configure options for gdal
>> From: Jason Paul Joines <jason at joines.org>
>> To: UbuntuGIS Users <ubuntu at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Date: 2013.04.17.Wed.14:07:53
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu] ubuntu configure options for gdal
>>> From: Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>
>>> To: Jason Paul Joines <jason at joines.org>, Katie Urey <ksurey at gmail.com>
>>> CC: UbuntuGIS Users <ubuntu at lists.osgeo.org>
>>> Date: 2013.04.17.Wed.1:31:28
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jason wrote:
>>>>> I'm trying to rebuild gdal to get mrsid and filegdb support
>>>>> in GRASS and QGIS on Kubuntu 12.04.2.
>>>> note you don't actually have to rebuild gdal for that, at
>>>> least mrsid can be installed as a plugin.
>>>> (same with many license-problematic format filters which can't
>>>> be built in by default)
>>>>
>>>> perhaps you just need the libgdal1-dev package installed to
>>>> build plugins? (idealy)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I notice that libgdal-mrsid isn't prebuilt for Precise/12.04:
>>>>  https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ppa/
>>>>  https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable
>>>>
>>>> you can get the build rules and re-run "debuild" to make your
>>>> own package though. Once you get it set up and figured out it's
>>>> a very simple one liner to build your own packages.
>>>>
>>>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable/+sourcepub/2354547/+listing-archive-extra
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>  I'm using the ubuntugis-unstable and ubuntugis-testing
>>>>> repositories.  I'd like to build the gdal packages the
>>>>> same way as the build in the repositories was built but
>>>>> with mrsid and filegdb support as well.  How can I tell
>>>>> what options were passed to configure to build the gdal
>>>>> packages hosted there?
>>>> for rebuilding all of the gdal packages with some slight
>>>> modifications, what I'd do is get the DebianGIS packaging
>>>> rules and rebuild from there (perhaps with slight mod-
>>>> ifications as needed).
>>>>
>>>> go to  http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis  and scroll down to
>>>> the git repo.
>>>>
>>>> you can use the instructions here, they'll work just as well
>>>> for GDAL as they do for rebuilding the GRASS packages:
>>>>
>>>> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/debian/README.debian
>>>>
>>>> just swap the names around.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> there are many ways to do it... that's just one!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> good luck,
>>>> Hamish
>>>>
>>> Thanks for the information. I'll read up on all of these options and
>>> give them a try.
>>>
>>> However, from what I can tell, no one has every been able to get mrsid
>>> and filegdb to work with Ubuntu 12.04. I've tried every guideline I
>>> could find online without success. Mostly, the information is outdated.
>>> There seem to be a lot of people in my situation who have tried
>>> everything without success and can't find out if anyone has ever been
>>> able to make it work.
>>>
>>> At this point I'm afraid GIS is going to be the end of my 13 years of
>>> exclusive open source use on my desktop.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jason
>>> ===========
>>>
>>>
>>     I got the source package for the gdal version I'm currently using.
>> Then I modified debian/rules to point to the appropriate locations for
>> ECW, FileGDB, and MrSID.  I ran debuild and twenty-something minutes
>> later it spit out these errors and failed:
>>
>> ...
>> +#MISSING: 1.9.2-2~precise4# (c++)"vtable for OGRXLSDataSource at GDAL_1.8"
>> 1.9.0
>> +#MISSING: 1.9.2-2~precise4# (c++)"vtable for OGRXLSDriver at GDAL_1.8" 1.9.0
>> +#MISSING: 1.9.2-2~precise4# (c++)"vtable for OGRXLSLayer at GDAL_1.8" 1.9.0
>>   (c++)"vtable for OGRXPlaneAPTBoundaryLayer at GDAL_1.8" 1.8.0
>>   (c++)"vtable for OGRXPlaneAPTLayer at GDAL_1.8" 1.8.0
>>   (c++)"vtable for OGRXPlaneAPTLightBeaconLayer at GDAL_1.8" 1.8.0
>> # Forces failure when symbols change
>> #dh_makeshlibs
>> dh_installdeb
>> dh_shlibdeps -L libgdal1 -l debian/libgdal1/usr/lib
>> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: couldn't find library libltidsdk.so needed by
>> debian/libgdal1/usr/lib/libgdal.so.1.16.2 (ELF format: 'elf64-x86-64';
>> RPATH: '').
>> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: couldn't find library liblti_lidar_dsdk.so
>> needed by debian/libgdal1/usr/lib/libgdal.so.1.16.2 (ELF format:
>> 'elf64-x86-64'; RPATH: '').
>> dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for
>> /usr/local/lib/libNCSEcwC.so.0 (used by
>> debian/libgdal1/usr/lib/libgdal.so.1.16.2).
>> dh_shlibdeps: dpkg-shlibdeps -Tdebian/libgdal1.substvars
>> -Sdebian/libgdal1 debian/libgdal1/usr/lib/libgdal.so.1.16.2 returned
>> exit code 2
>> make[1]: *** [binary-common] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jason/tmp/mrsid/gdal/gdal-1.9.2'
>> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2
>> dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit
>> status 2
>> debuild: fatal error at line 1350:
>> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed
>> jason at rooibos:~/tmp/mrsid/gdal/gdal-1.9.2$
>>
>>
>>     I don't know what caused the warnings because libltidsdk.so and
>> liblti_lidar_dsdk.so both exist where I pointed debian/rules.  I have no
>> idea what the error about
>> libNCSEcwC.so.0 even means.
>>
>>
>> Jason
>> ===========
>>
>>
>
>
>     The warnings went away when I added
> /usr/local/lib/FileGDB_API/lib
>
> /usr/local/lib/MrSID_DSDK-8.5.0.3422-linux.x86-64.gcc44/Lidar_DSDK/lib
>
> /usr/local/lib/MrSID_DSDK-8.5.0.3422-linux.x86-64.gcc44/Raster_DSDK/lib
> to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/zz_qgis.conf/etc/ld.so.conf.d/zz_gis.conf and ran
> ldconfig.
>
>     The error went away when I changed
> dh_shlibdeps -L libgdal1 -l debian/libgdal1/usr/lib
> to
> dh_shlibdeps --dpkg-shlibdeps-params=--ignore-missing-info -L libgdal1
> -l debian/libgdal1/usr/lib
>
> and was replaced with these warnings:
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libNCSCnet.so.0 could be avoided
> if "debian/libgdal1/usr/lib/libgdal.so.1.16.2" were not uselessly linked
> against it (they use none of its symbols).
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libpthread.so.0 could be avoided
> if
> "debian/python-gdal/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/osgeo/_gdalconst.so"
> were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libpthread.so.0 could be avoided
> if
> "debian/python3-gdal/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/osgeo/_gdalconst.cpython-32mu.so"
> were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).
>
>     At any rate, the packages built.  I force purged gdal-bin, libgdal1,
> and python-gdal then installed the newly built copies.  QGIS was then
> able to open a sid file.  Progress!  Now for testing the other formats
> as well as sid more thoroughly.
>
>
> Jason
> ===========
>
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