SDSC "gdal" roll

THIS ROLL HAS BEEN DEPRECATED

The functionality of the gdal-roll has been rolled into a new SDSC Rocks roll named GEO.

Please use the geo-roll instead of this one.

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Overview

This roll bundles the GDAL geospatial data abstraction library.

For more information about GDAL please visit the official web page:

• GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats.

Requirements

To build/install this roll you must have root access to a Rocks development machine (e.g., a frontend or development appliance).

If your Rocks development machine does not have Internet access you must download the appropriate gdal source file(s) using a machine that does have Internet access and copy them into the src/gdal directories on your Rocks development machine.

Dependencies

Unknown at this time.

Building

To build the gdal-roll, execute these instructions on a Rocks development machine (e.g., a frontend or development appliance):

% make default 2>&1 | tee build.log
% grep "RPM build error" build.log

If nothing is returned from the grep command then the roll should have been created as... gdal-*.iso. If you built the roll on a Rocks frontend then proceed to the installation step. If you built the roll on a Rocks development appliance you need to copy the roll to your Rocks frontend before continuing with installation.

Installation

To install, execute these instructions on a Rocks frontend:

% rocks add roll *.iso
% rocks enable roll gdal
% cd /export/rocks/install
% rocks create distro
% rocks run roll gdal | bash

In addition to the software itself, the roll installs gdal environment module files in:

/opt/modulefiles/applications/gdal