[R-sig-Geo] rgdal compile error on RHEL5 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Andrew Harley]

Hi All,
 
I'm getting an error when compiling the latest version of rgdal.
 
It's saying unable to find GDALAllRegister in libgdal. We are running gdal v1.8.0 from elgis repository. I noticed we had two versions of gdal-config (one for 64 bit), but the error remains the same not matter which one I use. Here are the ./configure options for our version of gdal (from http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS> ):

./configure --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --prefix=/usr --includedir=/usr/include/gdal/ --datadir=/usr/share/gdal/ --with-threads=yes --with-dods-root=/usr/lib64 --with-ogdi --with-cfitsio=/usr --with-geotiff=external --with-tiff=external --with-libtiff=external --with-libz --with-netcdf --with-hdf4 --with-hdf5 --with-geos --with-jasper --with-png --with-gif --with-jpeg --with-odbc --with-sqlite --with-mysql --with-curl --with-python --with-perl --with-pcraster --with-ruby --with-java --with-xerces --with-xerces-lib=-lxerces-c --with-xerces-inc=/usr/include --with-jpeg12=no --enable-shared --with-gdal-ver=1.8.0 --with-spatialite=yes

And here is the output of our install of rgdal. I've also tried pointing it to the gdalconfig by using --configure-args='--with-gdalconfig=/usr/bin/gdal-config', but the same error occurs. Any help you guys can provide would be great!

# R CMD INSTALL rgdal_0.7-12.tar.gz
* installing to library '/usr/lib64/R/library'
* installing *source* package 'rgdal' ...
** package 'rgdal' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
configure: gdal-config: gdal-config
checking gdal-config usability... yes
configure: GDAL: 1.8.0
checking GDAL version > 1.5.4... yes
checking for gcc... gcc -m64 -std=gnu99
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking gdal.h usability... yes
checking gdal.h presence... yes
checking for gdal.h... yes
checking gdal: linking with --libs only... no
checking gdal: linking with --libs and --dep-libs... no
configure: error: GDALAllRegister not found in libgdal.
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgdal'
* removing '/usr/lib64/R/library/rgdal'

gdal-config output:

# gdal-config --libs
-lgdal
# gdal-config --dep-libs
-L/usr/lib64 -lgeos_c -lodbc -lodbcinst -lexpat -lxerces-c -ljasper -lhdf5 -L/usr/lib64/hdf -L/usr/lib64/hdf -lmfhdf -ldf -logdi -lgif -ljpeg -lgeotiff -ltiff -lpng -lnetcdf -lcfitsio -L/usr/lib64 -lpq -lz -lpthread -lm -lrt -ldl -ldap -ldapclient -ldapserver -lpthread -lrx -L/usr/kerberos/lib64 -lcurl -ldl -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -lidn -lssl -lcrypto -lz -lxml2 -lz -lm -lspatialite -L/usr/kerberos/lib64 -lcurl -ldl -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -lidn -lssl -lcrypto -lz -rdynamic -L/usr/lib64/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -L/usr/lib64 -lssl -lcrypto

Thanks,
 
Andrew Harley
Linux Systems Administrator
Climate and Water Division (ICT Operations)
Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
03 9616 8441
http://www.bom.gov.au/water/