[R-sig-Geo] simple yet durable error when trying to build GDAL 1.4.0 with HDF4 support

[Rick Reeves]

Hello All:

Ive searched for a solution to this elsewhere but now will post the 
question here:

Im building GDAL 1.4.0 library from source to include HDF4 library on
ubuntu linux Daper Drake.

Have expanded the HDF4 binaries (which include the libmfhdf.a archive 
required
by GDAL) and the GDAL source build archive and am running ./configure
per http://gdal.org/gdal_building.html. When I run the ./configure script
with the argument:

    --with-hdf4=/opt/4.2r1-linux (this path contains the libraries)..

I get the error :

  " configure: error: HDF4 support requested with arg /opt/4.2r1-linux,
   but neither hdf4 or mfhdf lib found."
 
Google search reveals that several others have encountered this issue
in the past, but no solution is posted.

Has anyone encountered and perhaps resolved this?

Thanks in advance,
Rick Reeves

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Rick Reeves	
Scientific Programmer / Analyst	
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
UC Santa Barbara
reeves at nceas.ucsb.edu
www.nceas.ucsb.edu
805 892 2533

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