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The gdal Portfile 58230 2009-09-24 16:45:22Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
Name: gdal
Version: 1.6.2
Maintainers: gmail.com:seanasy
Platform: darwin
Description: GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
Long Description: GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. The related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data.
Homepage: http://www.gdal.org/
Master Sites: http://www.gdal.org/dl/ http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/
Category: science
Checksums: md5 f2dcd6aa7222d021202984523adf3b55 rmd160 e445680953f25047a280f36cedba0597094e0562 sha1 1d9e1d8f01f06bca99e7335d7e86dff784eee819

depends_lib port:zlib port:libpng port:tiff port:libgeotiff port:jpeg path:include/gif_lib.h:giflib port:proj

configure.args --with-local=${prefix} --with-libz=${prefix} --with-png=${prefix} --with-libtiff=${prefix} --with-geotiff=${prefix} --with-jpeg=${prefix} --with-gif=${prefix} --with-static-proj4=${prefix} --without-pg --without-grass --without-libgrass --without-cfitsio --without-pcraster --without-netcdf --without-ogdi --without-fme --without-hdf4 --without-hdf5 --without-jasper --without-ecw --without-kakadu --without-mrsid --without-jp2mrsid --without-msg --without-bsb --without-oci --without-grib --without-mysql --without-ingres --without-xerces --without-expat --without-odbc --with-dods-support=no --without-curl --without-sqlite3 --without-dwgdirect --without-idb --without-sde --without-geos --without-pam --without-macosx-framework --without-perl --without-php --without-ruby --without-python --without-ogpython --without-xerces --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --with-pthreads

# Patch to ensure that the python installation respects DESTDIR
Patch Files: patch-swig_python_GNUmakefile

# Patches for universal build

pre-build {
if {[variant_isset universal]} {
system "cd ${worksrcpath} && patch -p0 < ${portpath}/files/patch_cpl_config_h"
}
}

# Set target to none
build.target

Variant: geos description {Enable GEOS geometry engine functionality} {
depends_lib-append port:geos
configure.args-delete --without-geos
configure.args-append --with-geos=${prefix}/bin/geos-config
}

Variant: curl description {Enable curl support} {
depends_lib-append port:curl
configure.args-delete --without-curl
configure.args-append --with-curl=${prefix}/bin/curl-config
}

Variant: mrsid description {Enable MrSID file format} {
depends_lib-append port:geoexpress-sdk
configure.args-delete --without-mrsid
configure.args-append --with-mrsid=${prefix}/share/Geo_DSDK

# Fixes for Geo_DSDK 7.x - http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2410
patchfiles-append patch-frmts_mrsid_mrsiddataset.cpp patch-mrsid-configure
}

Variant: hdf4 description {Enable HDF4 file format} {
depends_lib-append port:hdf4
configure.args-delete --without-hdf4
configure.args-append --with-hdf4=${prefix}
}

Variant: hdf5 description {Enable HDF5 file format} {
depends_lib-append port:hdf5
configure.args-delete --without-hdf5
configure.args-append --with-hdf5=${prefix}
}

Variant: netcdf description {Enable NetCDF file format} {
depends_lib-append port:netcdf
configure.args-delete --without-netcdf
configure.args-append --with-netcdf=${prefix}
}

Variant: jasper description {Enable JasPer JPEG-2000 file format} {
depends_lib-append port:jasper
configure.args-delete --without-jasper
configure.args-append --with-jasper=${prefix}
}

Variant: xerces description {Enable xerces XML support for GML file format} {
depends_lib-append port:xercesc
configure.args-delete --without-xerces
configure.args-append --with-xerces=${prefix}
}

# Python variants
Variant: python24 description {Enable Python 2.4 support} {
depends_lib-append port:python24 port:py-numpy
configure.args-delete --without-python
configure.args-append --with-python
build.args-append PYTHON=python2.4
}

Variant: python25 description {Enable Python 2.5 support} {
depends_lib-append port:python25 port:py25-numpy
configure.args-delete --without-python
configure.args-append --with-python
build.args-append PYTHON=python2.5
}

Variant: python26 description {Enable Python 2.6 support} {
depends_lib-append port:python26 port:py26-numpy
configure.args-delete --without-python
configure.args-append --with-python
build.args-append PYTHON=python2.6
}

# Database variants
Variant: postgresql81 description {Enable PostgreSQL 8.1 support} {
depends_lib-append port:postgresql81
configure.args-delete --without-pg
configure.args-append --with-pg=${prefix}/lib/postgresql81/bin/pg_config
}

Variant: postgresql82 description {Enable PostgreSQL 8.2 support} {
depends_lib-append port:postgresql82
configure.args-delete --without-pg
configure.args-append --with-pg=${prefix}/lib/postgresql82/bin/pg_config
}

Variant: postgresql83 description {Enable PostgreSQL 8.3 support} {
depends_lib-append port:postgresql83
configure.args-delete --without-pg
configure.args-append --with-pg=${prefix}/lib/postgresql83/bin/pg_config
}

Variant: postgresql84 description {Enable PostgreSQL 8.4 support} {
depends_lib-append port:postgresql84
configure.args-delete --without-pg
configure.args-append --with-pg=${prefix}/lib/postgresql84/bin/pg_config
}

Variant: mysql5 description {Enable MySQL 5 support} {
depends_lib-append path:bin/mysql_config5:mysql5
configure.args-delete --without-mysql
configure.args-append --with-mysql=${prefix}/lib/mysql5/bin/mysql_config
}

Variant: sqlite3 description {Enable SQLite3 support} {
depends_lib-append port:sqlite3
configure.args-delete --without-sqlite
configure.args-append --with-sqlite=${prefix}
}

Variant: odbc description {Enable ODBC support} {
depends_lib-append port:unixODBC
configure.args-delete --without-odbc
configure.args-append --with-odbc=${prefix}
}

# OS X Framework
Variant: framework description {Build as a Mac OS X framework} {
configure.args-append --with-macosx-framework
}

post-destroot {
xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}
xinstall -m 644 -W ${worksrcpath} HOWTO-RELEASE NEWS VERSION ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/gdal
%  sudo port install gdal  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching gdal
--->  Verifying checksum for gdal
--->  Extracting gdal
--->  Configuring gdal
--->  Building gdal with target all

--->  Staging gdal into destroot

--->  Installing gdal

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using gdal with these commands:

%  man gdal
%  apropos gdal
%  which gdal
%  locate gdal

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