[R-sig-Geo] rgdal: libgdal requirements too restrictive

[Roger Bivand]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Kirill Müller wrote:

> Dear Roger
>
> On 04/22/2013 10:23 AM, Roger Bivand wrote:
>> If you would like to change the condition in configure.ac, rebuild 
>> configure, and try out R CMD check (checking out rgeos from R-forge for 
>> convenience), we could relax from 3.2.2 to 3.2.0.
>> 
>> You could try the same approach with rgdal and GDAL 1.6.3 (multiple 
>> packages)
>
> I can confirm that, on an up-to-date Debian "wheezy" amd64, rgeos passes R 
> CMD check if libgeos has version 3.2.0. Likewise, rgdal passes R CMD check 
> with libgdal=1.6.3. I have attached patches for your convenience. Thank you 
> for your help.

Thanks, patches committed to R-forge for rgeos and rgdal. Please check 
after updating from the repository, and report. If OK, the changes will be 
in the next CRAN releases.

Roger

>
>
> Cheers
>
> Kirill
>

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