GRASS

Note, following instructions apply to Linux and other environments where GNU autotools are available (autoconf, automake, make).

The right order of steps to perform is, briefly:

• build GDAL without GRASS support
• build GRASS pointing to your new GDAL
• add your GRASS library path to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig
• build GDAL's GRASS plugin OR completely rebuild GDAL with GRASS support. (building the plugin is easier; do that)

Prerequisites

• Download and install ​GRASS source. The easiest option is to use binary packages prepared for your operating system.

• Download latest stable or development version of GDAL sources:

tar -zxf gdal-1.5.0.tar.gz
cd gdal-1.5.0

Building GDAL and GRASS driver plugin

First build GDAL without GRASS

• Configure GDAL sources without GRASS support:

./configure --without-grass

and then you should see the built-in GRASS driver disabled (no) in the summary:

GDAL is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
...
  GRASS support:             no
...

• Build and install GDAL:

make

The install step needs root privileges:

sudo make install

Next build GRASS

• ./configure GRASS --with-gdal=/path/to/gdal-config

Finally build GDAL's GRASS plugin

• ​Download latest sources of GRASS plugin where the package file name is gdal-grass-X.Y.Z.tar.gz, ie. ​gdal-grass-1.4.3.tar.gz (1.4.3 plugin is fine with any 1.4.x GDAL). Unpack the source package:

tar -zxf gdal-grass-1.4.3.tar.gz
cd gdal-grass-1.4.3

• Configure the plugin providing paths to gdal-config program and GRASS files as follows:

./configure --with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config --with-grass=/usr/local/grass6

• Now, the plugin is ready to build and install:

make

The install step needs root privileges:

sudo make install

Confirm

 gdalinfo --formats | grep GRASS
 ogrinfo --formats | grep GRASS

should both show some information on the GRASS driver.

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