Building GDAL with geoRaster support in Linux

Question

Please forgive me if this has been posted before (I did search but did not find a match) or if considered off topic.
In the past I have only used GDAL + Oracle instant client + GeoRaster on the Windows platform. I’m looking to run it on Linux but have spent hours trying to build it... and it seems to be a straightforward process. (note I am trying to build on Ubuntu but will also be doing the same on RedHat based system). Using GDAL 1.7.2 and Oracle instant client 11.2
** Downloaded:
instantclient-basic-linux32-11.2.0.1.zip
instantclient-sdk-linux32-11.2.0.1.zip
instantclient-sqlplus-linux32-11.2.0.1.zip
and unzipped these.
** Set the following environment variables:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/matt/instantclient_11_2
ORACLE_HOME=/home/matt/instantclient_11_2
NLS_LANG=American_America.WE8ISO8859P1
** created symbolic links:
ln -s libclntsh.so.11.1 libclntsh.so
ln -s libocci.so.11.1 libocci.so
** run the ./configure script in GDAL directory from command line:
matt@bandicoot:~/gdal-1.7.2$ ./configure with-oci=/home/matt/instantclient_11_2 with-oci-include=/home/matt/instantclient_11_2/sdk/include --with-oci-lib=/home/matt/instantclient_11_2
Am I missing something?
Cheers,
MH

Answer 1

I have the following from the log file:
configure:19846: checking for Oracle OCI headers in
configure:19879: g++ -c -g -O2 -I/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/rdbms/public -I/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/rdbms/demo -I/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/sdk/include conftest.cpp >&5
conftest.cpp:57:29: error: oci.h: No such file or directory
conftest.cpp:70:4: error: #error Oracle oci.h header not found
configure:19879: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define STDC_HEADERS 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
| #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
| #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| #define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1
| #define LT_OBJDIR ".libs/"
| #define HAVE_LIBDL 1
| #define HAVE_LIBRT 1
| #define HAVE_LIBM 1
| #define STDC_HEADERS 1
| #define HAVE_ASSERT_H 1
| #define HAVE_FCNTL_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| #define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
| #define HAVE_LIMITS_H 1
| #define HAVE_LOCALE_H 1
| #define HAVE_VALUES_H 1
| #define HAVE_FLOAT_H 1
| #define HAVE_ERRNO_H 1
| #define HAVE_LONG_LONG 1
| #define UNIX_STDIO_64 1
| #define VSI_LARGE_API_SUPPORTED 1
| #define VSI_FTELL64 ftello64
| #define VSI_FSEEK64 fseeko64
| #define VSI_STAT64 stat64
| #define VSI_STAT64_T stat64
| #define VSI_FOPEN64 fopen64
| #define SIZEOF_INT 4
| #define SIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG 4
| #define SIZEOF_VOIDP 4
| #define HAVE_IEEEFP 1
| #define HOST_FILLORDER FILLORDER_LSB2MSB
| #define HAVE_VPRINTF 1
| #define HAVE_SNPRINTF 1
| #define HAVE_VSNPRINTF 1
| #define HAVE_ATOLL 1
| #define HAVE_STRTOF 1
| #define HAVE_GETCWD 1
| #define HAVE_DECL_STRTOF 1
| #define HAVE_GCC_ATOMIC_BUILTINS 1
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| #include <oci.h>
| int
| main ()
| {
|
| #if defined(OCI_MAJOR_VERSION)
| #if OCI_MAJOR_VERSION == 10 && OCI_MINOR_VERSION == 2
| // Oracle 10.2 detected
| #endif
| #elif defined(OCI_V7_SYNTAX)
| // OK, older Oracle detected
| // TODO - mloskot: find better macro to check for older versions;
| #else
| # error Oracle oci.h header not found
| #endif
|
|
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:19898: result: header not found
configure:20041: checking if Oracle support is enabled
configure:20055: result: no
configure:21294: checking if Oracle support is enabled
configure:21308: result: no
Note that on the system I am using, the oci.h file is in /usr/include/oracle/11.2/client
Is the configure script looking for a "certain" directory structure?
I'm surprised that you haven't tried the instant client before, it is a very popular that people often use on a machine separate from the database machine.
Cheers,