python egg fails to easy_install due to gdal-config default

[ltucker]

The setup.cfg distributed with the gdal python package listed on PyPI sets the default value of gdal_config to:

../../apps/gdal-config

This probably makes sense in some larger build context, but it appears to cause normal easy_installs to fail. At least for the PyPI distribution, it seems more sensible to leave this out and assume that gdal-config is in the user's PATH.

e.g.

$ easy_install GDAL
Searching for GDAL
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/GDAL/
Reading http://www.gdal.org
Best match: GDAL 1.7.0
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/G/GDAL/GDAL-1.7.0.tar.gz#md5=3f737981ffe05c53af64a31172550b51
Processing GDAL-1.7.0.tar.gz
Running GDAL-1.7.0/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /var/folders/7E/7EDHz-XAFYiqlZDjAGvbGk+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-mNJCvA/GDAL-1.7.0/egg-dist-tmp-DhDs0F
Could not run gdal-config!!!!
... chaos ensues

$ which gdal-config
/opt/local/bin/gdal-config

The correct gdal-config is used if the offending section of setup.cfg is removed.

[jmckenty]

I'm running in to this consistently as well.

[slinkp]

Me too. Can we get a bugfix release with this? It's a one-liner.

[Even Rouault]

This ticket has been automatically closed because Trac is no longer used for GDAL bug tracking, since the project has migrated to GitHub. If you believe this ticket is still valid, you may file it to ​https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues if it is not already reported there.