Installing GDAL via buildout on MacOSX - django

Question

I'm trying to install GDAL via buildout on MacOSX. I have following config:
[gdal]
recipe = zc.recipe.cmmi
url = http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.7.2.tar.gz
extra_options =
--with-geos=${geos:location}/bin/geos-config
--with-static-proj4=${proj:location}
--with-jpeg={libjpeg:location}
--with-spatialite=${spatialite-lib:location}
--with-sqlite=${spatialite-lib:location}
I tried many other configurations but all I've got is the following error:
http://pastebin.com/s0WxfnUu
Any clues?

Answer 1

I've managed to resolve the problem - description below.
Just for the record - proper configuration for building GDAL on MacOSX (for example purposes I've cut off additional stuff):
[libiconv]
# ...
[gdal]
recipe = hexagonit.recipe.cmmi
url = http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.7.3.tar.gz
configure-options =
--with-python
--with-jpeg=internal
--with-spatialite=${spatialite:location}
CFLAGS=-I${libiconv:location}/include
LIBS="${libiconv:location}/lib/libiconv.la ${libiconv:location}/lib/libcharset.la"
You need to specify libiconv (in my example I'm building it from source) - it will prevent charset errors.
Also my problem was in the version of jpeglib, so I've definied --with-jpeg=internal so the GDAL will use it's own libs. Depending on the error you can use --with-png=internal, --with-tiff=internal etc.
Good luck!

Answer 2

Buildout is great for a lot of things, but even I tend to hand over some responsibility to the OS.
The whole whopping geo stack is one of those things. Gdal, geos, libproj4, mapnik, I don't know what. Compiling everything from source is just too cumbersome, especially as you have a lot of dependencies.
In your case, it looks like there's a mismatch in some of the libraries that gdal compiles against. Wrong length of arguments.
My tip is to install gdal and friends via your OS (so: windows installer, apt-get, rpm, whatever).