Trouble installing gdal using configure.args="--with-fgdb=/path/to/FileGDB_API"

[Hermann Peifer]

Hi,

I want to install the gdal package with FileGDB support and things work 
fine if I copy relevant third party libraries (libFileGDBAPI.dylib and 
libfgdbunixrtl.dylib) and header files to /opt/local/lib and 
/opt/local/include respectively.

However, I do not really want to mess around under /opt/local and prefer 
to keep third party libraries elsewhere. So I tried to install gdal like 
this:

$ sudo port -v install gdal 
configure.args="--with-fgdb=/path/to/FileGDB_API"

Gdal's configure script then checks for 
/path/to/FileGDB_API/lib/libFileGDBAPI.so rather than for 
libFileGDBAPI.dylib and subsequently fails with this error message:

...
checking for libFileGDBAPI.so in in /path/to/FileGDB_API/lib... 
configure: error: not found.
Exit code: 1
...

Is there something wrong in the MacPort of gdal or rather in the gdal 
package itself -- or am I doing something terribly wrong?

Thanks in advance, Hermann