[Proj] PROJ.4 installation question under Solaris

[Dan Scheirer]

Frank,

Re-ordering my LD_LIBRARY_PATH in Solaris, giving precedence
to my local build's lib, indeed gives me the desired results.

Much obliged,
Dan



----- Original Message ----
> From: Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
> To: PROJ.4 and general Projections Discussions <proj at lists.maptools.org>
> Sent: Mon, January 25, 2010 8:17:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Proj] PROJ.4 installation question under Solaris
> 
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Dan Scheirer wrote:
> > The "./configure --prefix=..." and "make" steps seem to complete
> > without error.  However, I am puzzled by the proj version that I have created.
> >
> > When I execute the ksh-wrapper, I get the expected result:
> > % proj-4.7.0/src/proj
> > Rel. 4.7.1, 23 September 2009
> > usage: proj [ -beEfiIlormsStTvVwW [args] ] [ +opts[=arg] ] [ files ]
> >
> > However, when I execute the executable pointed-to by
> > the ksh-wrapper, I get an old version string...equivalent to
> > the one built in /usr/local/bin:
> > % proj-4.7.0/src/.libs/proj
> > Rel. 4.5.0, 22 Oct 2006
> > usage: proj [ -beEfiIlormsStTvVwW [args] ] [ +opts[=arg] ] [ files ]
> > % /usr/local/bin/proj
> > Rel. 4.5.0, 22 Oct 2006
> > usage: proj [ -beEfiIlormsStTvVwW [args] ] [ +opts[=arg] ] [ files ]
> 
> Dan,
> 
> The problem is if you execute the executable directly it
> does a normal search of the shared library path to find
> the libproj.so shared library to use, and ends up getting
> the old one from /usr/local/lib.
> 
> If you run the wrapper script, it does some magic to ensure
> it picks up the right shared library.
> 
> What I would normally do in this case is define the
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable with
> my local build ahead of the default locations.   I'm
> not sure if things work exactly the same on Solaris
> though - the env. variable name may be different.
> 
> Best regards,
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