HDF Support for gdal2

[DevinRouth]

Hello everyone,

Firstly, thanks for offering homebrew support for gdal!

To my question: I recently have been trying to help a colleague process some HDF (HD4 in particular) files, and I'm unable to install a version of gdal that includes the HDF drivers.

I tried a "brew uninstall --force gdal2" to start fresh, then a "brew install gdal2". This resulted in a successful "gdalinfo --version" call that returns "GDAL 2.3.1, released 2018/06/22". However, when I try to run "gdalinfo test.hdf", I still see "ERROR 4: `test.hdf' not recognized as a supported file format.".

My machine runs MacOS 10.13.5.

What would folks recommend?

Thanks!

Cheers,
Devin

[DevinRouth]

Hi HomeBrew GDAL Devs,

I wanted to followup quickly on this issue. Is there a chance at a quick fix for this, or should I temporarily try to sidestep using HomeBrew for GDAL (i.e., using a packaged version of GDAL instead)?

Thanks!

Cheers,
Devin

[Aegman]

Hi,
I'm no Homebrew expert, but I've got HDF/NetCDF working in GDAL Homebrew using the following command:
brew install gdal2 --with-complete

[DevinRouth]

Hi Aegman,

It seems the "--with-complete" flag was what I needed. Thanks for the suggestion!

Cheers,
Devin

[ivanhigueram]

With the new version of Homebrew, is not possible to use options like --with-complete when installing libraries anymore. There is an option to link the hdf4 with the gdal installation? I think osgeo4 makes something similar.

[mpmarcaida]

I have a sticky situation in installing gdal with hdf4 in Mojave. I tried the command:

brew install gdal2 --with-complete

but get I this error:

invalid option: --with-complete

Anyone found a workaround for this? Thanks!

[fjperini]

@mpmarcaida It is not an error, that option is already by default.

use: brew install osgeo-gdal.

[MichaelChaoLi-cpu]

brew install osgeo-gdal
@fjperini
I use this command, but I get the warning as follows:

Warning: No available formula with the name "osgeo-gdal".
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)...
Error: No previously deleted formula found.
==> Searching taps on GitHub...
Error: No formulae found in taps.