Build fails on 1.11.x

[Mike Taves]

I can't seem to build the 1.11.x GDAL series on CentOS x64. For what it's worth, I don't have root access, so I use a prefix where I have permissions. On this system, I successfully compiled GDAL 1.10.1, released 2013/08/26, but have been unable to compile GDAL 1.11.0, or 1.11.1RC1. The later is used for the messages in this ticket.

Here are some commands, with excerpts of the outputs. Full configure and make outputs are attached.

$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.1/gdal-1.11.1RC1.tar.gz
$ tar xfz gdal-1.11.1RC1.tar.gz
$ cd gdal-1.11.1
$ ./configure --prefix=/amp/gw/sw --with-python
...
GDAL is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

  Installation directory:    /amp/gw/sw
  C compiler:                gcc -g -O2 -DHAVE_SSE_AT_COMPILE_TIME
  C++ compiler:              g++ -g -O2 -DHAVE_SSE_AT_COMPILE_TIME
  LIBTOOL support:           yes

$ make
...
/bin/sh /tmp/gdal-1.11.1/libtool --mode=compile --tag=CXX g++ -g -O2 -DHAVE_SSE_AT_COMPILE_TIME  -Wall  -DHAVE_GEOS=1 -I/amp/gw/sw/include -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/port -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/gcore -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/alg -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/ogr -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/ogr/ogrsf_frmts -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/frmts -DOGR_ENABLED -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/port  -c -o ogrinfo.lo ogrinfo.cpp
libtool: compile:  g++ -g -O2 -DHAVE_SSE_AT_COMPILE_TIME -Wall -DHAVE_GEOS=1 -I/amp/gw/sw/include -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/port -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/gcore -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/alg -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/ogr -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/ogr/ogrsf_frmts -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/frmts -DOGR_ENABLED -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/port -c ogrinfo.cpp  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/ogrinfo.o
ogrinfo.cpp: In function 'int main(int, char**)':
ogrinfo.cpp:306: error: 'class OGRFeatureDefn' has no member named 'GetGeomFieldCount'
ogrinfo.cpp:314: error: 'OGRGeomFieldDefn' was not declared in this scope
ogrinfo.cpp:314: error: 'poGFldDefn' was not declared in this scope
ogrinfo.cpp:315: error: 'class OGRFeatureDefn' has no member named 'GetGeomFieldDefn'
ogrinfo.cpp: In function 'void ReportOnLayer(OGRLayer*, const char*, const char*, OGRGeometry*)':
ogrinfo.cpp:425: error: 'class OGRFeatureDefn' has no member named 'GetGeomFieldIndex'
ogrinfo.cpp:427: error: no matching function for call to 'OGRLayer::SetSpatialFilter(int&, OGRGeometry*&)'
/amp/gw/sw/include/ogrsf_frmts.h:75: note: candidates are: virtual void OGRLayer::SetSpatialFilter(OGRGeometry*)
ogrinfo.cpp:446: error: 'class OGRFeatureDefn' has no member named 'GetGeomFieldCount'
ogrinfo.cpp:451: error: 'OGRGeomFieldDefn' was not declared in this scope
ogrinfo.cpp:451: error: 'poGFldDefn' was not declared in this scope
ogrinfo.cpp:452: error: 'class OGRFeatureDefn' has no member named 'GetGeomFieldDefn'
ogrinfo.cpp:470: error: no matching function for call to 'OGRLayer::GetExtent(int&, OGREnvelope*, int)'
/amp/gw/sw/include/ogrsf_frmts.h:96: note: candidates are: virtual OGRErr OGRLayer::GetExtent(OGREnvelope*, int)
ogrinfo.cpp:472: error: 'OGRGeomFieldDefn' was not declared in this scope
ogrinfo.cpp:472: error: 'poGFldDefn' was not declared in this scope
ogrinfo.cpp:473: error: 'class OGRFeatureDefn' has no member named 'GetGeomFieldDefn'
ogrinfo.cpp:492: error: 'OGRGeomFieldDefn' was not declared in this scope
ogrinfo.cpp:492: error: 'poGFldDefn' was not declared in this scope
ogrinfo.cpp:493: error: 'class OGRFeatureDefn' has no member named 'GetGeomFieldDefn'
ogrinfo.cpp:528: error: 'OGRGeomFieldDefn' was not declared in this scope
ogrinfo.cpp:528: error: 'poGFldDefn' was not declared in this scope
ogrinfo.cpp:529: error: 'class OGRFeatureDefn' has no member named 'GetGeomFieldDefn'
make[1]: *** [ogrinfo.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/apps'
make: *** [apps-target] Error 2

Not really sure what the error actually is. The .libs/ directory has these files:

$ file .libs/*
.libs/libgdal.a:         current ar archive
.libs/libgdal.la:        symbolic link to `../libgdal.la'
.libs/libgdal.lai:       libtool library file
.libs/libgdal.so:        symbolic link to `libgdal.so.1.18.1'
.libs/libgdal.so.1:      symbolic link to `libgdal.so.1.18.1'
.libs/libgdal.so.1.18.1: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, not stripped

[Even Rouault]

Are you sure there are not GDAL headers from a previous version in /amp/gw/sw/include ?

[Mike Taves]

The prefix /amp/gw/sw currently has GDAL 10.1 and GEOS. So yes, it seems that the build fail is due to conflicting headers from different versions of GDAL.

The headers for GEOS in -I/amp/gw/sw/include are read before the local headers -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/port etc. Does it need to be in this order?

I suppose a workaround would be to manually uninstall the older version of GDAL, build, then install the new version.

[Even Rouault]

Yes, there might be various issues if old headers are found in the include path. We might try fixing it, but it will be fragile, so you'd better remove any older headers from the include path.

[Mike Taves]

Previous headers were removed like this:

$ rm /amp/gw/sw/include/gdal*
$ rm /amp/gw/sw/include/ogr*

It looks like #3435 is a good idea for this; consider it for 2.0.

Using same configure and make procedure as above, still fails with a different error. Attached make output and unified diff from previous. Here are the relevant lines near the end:

$ make
...
/bin/sh /tmp/gdal-1.11.1/libtool --mode=link    g++  gdalserver.lo  /tmp/gdal-1.11.1/libgdal.la
 -o gdalserver
libtool: link: g++ .libs/gdalserver.o -o .libs/gdalserver  /tmp/gdal-1.11.1/.libs/libgdal.so -L
/amp/gw/sw/lib -L/usr/lib64/ -L/usr/lib64 /amp/gw/sw/lib/libgeos_c.so /amp/gw/sw/lib/libgeos.so
 -lsqlite3 -lhdf5 -lpng -lpq -lpthread -lrt -ldl -lpcre -lcurl -lxml2 -lz  -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/amp/
gw/sw/lib
/bin/sh /tmp/gdal-1.11.1/libtool --mode=compile --tag=CXX g++ -g -O2 -DHAVE_SSE_AT_COMPILE_TIME
  -Wall  -DHAVE_GEOS=1 -I/amp/gw/sw/include -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/port -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/gcore -I
/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/alg -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/ogr -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/ogr/ogrsf_frmts -I/tmp/gdal-1.11
.1/frmts -DOGR_ENABLED -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/port  -c -o gdal_translate.lo gdal_translate.cpp
libtool: compile:  g++ -g -O2 -DHAVE_SSE_AT_COMPILE_TIME -Wall -DHAVE_GEOS=1 -I/amp/gw/sw/inclu
de -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/port -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/gcore -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/alg -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/o
gr -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/ogr/ogrsf_frmts -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/frmts -DOGR_ENABLED -I/tmp/gdal-1.11.1
/port -c gdal_translate.cpp  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/gdal_translate.o
In file included from gdal_translate.cpp:34:
/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/gcore/gdal_priv.h:116: error: expected ';' before 'CPL_NULL_TERMINATED'
make[1]: *** [gdal_translate.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gdal-1.11.1/apps'
make: *** [apps-target] Error 2

Do I need to clean out /amp/gw/sw/lib/libgdal.* too?

[Even Rouault]

Try also "rm /amp/gw/sw/include/cpl*.h"

[Mike Taves]

The build succeeded with that one. So in summary, to upgrade major release versions, the commands were:

export prefix=/amp/gw/sw
rm ${prefix}/include/gdal*.h
rm ${prefix}/include/ogr*.h
rm ${prefix}/include/cpl*.h

You can close this ticket, unless you want to try reordering the includes to list local headers before external headers (i.e. the order of -I/...).

[Even Rouault]

trunk r27976 "Unix build: make sure \$(GDAL_INCLUDE) is first to avoid being confused by GDAL headers of a previous version elsewhere in the include path (#5664)"

[Even Rouault]

Milestone renamed