[Xastir] SDTS file errors

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:18:58PM -0500, a Mr. Richard Feyler of Fort Lee, New Jersey <jdw at eng.uah.edu> writes 'Dear Rosanne Rosannadanna':
> I've got the latest xastir (via CVS) configured with gdal 1.2.0, proj, 
> etc (everything except gpsman, ax.25 and festival) and am trying to 
> display SDTS files.  For every map file, I get an error like this:
> 
> SDTS: /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/hsv/hypsography/HP01CATD.DDF
>   Found projected coordinates: NAD83.  Converting to geographic/wgs84 
> datum
> ERROR 6: Unable to load PROJ.4 library (libproj.so), creation of
> OGRCoordinateTransformation failed.
> Couldn't create transformation object
> 
> Any ideas?

Did you build and install proj.4 before configuring and building gdal?
Did GDAL actually report that it saw proj.4 when you configured/built it?
Does libproj.so exist as a symlink to libproj.so.4?  

It sounds an awful lot like there was a problem in shared library accesses,
and those are the reasons I can think of for that.  I believe most linuxen
have an "ld.so.conf" or something like that that has to include all the 
directories where shared libraries live.  Is your libproj.so library in
one of those directories?  

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