GRASS Users:
The only GDAL RPM I found which does NOT fail dependencies when installing under RHEL3/CentOS3 is an older one which I downloaded a while back, which I can NOT locate now in my Web Searching: gdal-1.2.5-1.i586.rpm (which was for an older Release of GRASS, possibly for a SuSE 9x Build of GRASS6.0???):
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Name : gdal Relocations: /usr/local
Version : 1.2.5 Vendor: GDF Hannover bR <http://www.gdf-hannover.de>
Release : 1 Build Date: Mon 07 Feb 2005 08:15:39 AM EST
Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: tatzi
Group : Applications/GIS Source RPM: gdal-1.2.5-1.src.rpm
Size : 10267601 License: MIT licence; Copyright by Frank Warmerdam
Signature : (none)
Packager : Otto Dassau <info@gdf-hannover.de>
URL : http://gdal.org/
Summary : GDAL - a translator library for raster geospatial data formats
Description :
GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats. As a library,
it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all
supported formats. An initial skeleton of GDAL has formed, and operates for a
few formats.
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Although configure is satisfied with the presence of GDAL, at build time there is a missing "gdal_version.h" which causes some of the Vector Modules to fail at compile time... I fashioned an "gdal_version.h" after the "gdal_version.h" included within the newer GDAL RPMs, after which my GRASS 6.2.1 Build reports NO Errors??? My hand crafted "gdal_version.h" looks as follows:
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/* -------------------------------------------------------------------- */
/* GDAL Version Information. */
/* -------------------------------------------------------------------- */
#ifndef GDAL_VERSION_MAJOR
# define GDAL_VERSION_MAJOR 1
# define GDAL_VERSION_MINOR 2
# define GDAL_VERSION_REV 5
# define GDAL_VERSION_BUILD 1
#endif
#ifndef GDAL_VERSION_NUM
# define GDAL_VERSION_NUM (GDAL_VERSION_MAJOR*1000+GDAL_VERSION_MINOR*100+GDAL_VERSION_REV*10+GDAL_VERSION_BUILD)
#endif
#ifndef GDAL_RELEASE_DATE
# define GDAL_RELEASE_DATE 20041121
#endif
#ifndef GDAL_RELEASE_NAME
# define GDAL_RELEASE_NAME "1.2.5.1"
#endif
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Should GRASS 6.2.1 built against GDAL 1.2.5 produce Vector Routines which will perform "correctly" or should it be built against a newer version (in spite of being unable to find a RPM which does NOT fail dependencies installing under RHEL3/CentOS3??? Could the GRASS 6.2 Code be made smart enough the be able to handle the lack of a "gdal_version.h" for GDAL 1.2.5 (previous GRASS Releases did build without errors against this "older" version of GDAL)???
Lawrence Houston -- (grass@greenfield.dyndns.org)