Thanks Even, that helped track it down.
Turns out we were calling GDALAllRegister() before calling
CPLSetConfigOption(), I think that was causing the internal CPLFindeInit
call, looks fixed now.
Cheers!
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 2:26 PM Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com>
wrote:
> Christopher,
>
> CPLFindFile() calls CPLFinderInit() which issues CPLGetConfigOption(
> "GDAL_DATA", nullptr). But CPLFinderInit() runs once per-thread. So a
> potential theory for what you observe would be that something runs
> CPLFindFile() before you call CPLSetConfigOption("GDAL_DATA", ...). Setting
> breakpoint on CPLFinderInit and CPLSetConfigOption should confirm if this
> is what actually happens
>
> Even
> Le 24/08/2021 à 23:17, Christopher Corbell a écrit :
>
> I'm tracking down a bug with WFS data import in our app and it seems like
> the cause is a call to CPLFindFile returning NULL, looking for a
> gmlasconf.xml file that should be in the gdal share directory.
>
> This is a Mac universal binary app that embeds GDAL as a dylib and also
> includes the share files, so we use CPLSetConfigOption("GDAL_DATA", ...) to
> configure the CPL. So we don't rely on any absolute install/build paths or
> on the end-user installing their own GDAL. This worked previously but we
> recently updated to GDAL 3.3.1.
>
> The WFS import fails when CPLFindFile returns NULL on attempt to read that
> config file, but the bug does not occur on my workstation, where this copy
> of GDAL was built. It turns out this is because CPLFindFile will return the
> original location of the GDAL build/install share directory (which still
> exists on my system).
>
> Can anyone offer a theory why CPLFindFile might ignore the gdal data path
> and only look in the absolute install path set when GDAL was built? Here's
> some debugger output showing how these functions point to two different
> directories at runtime:
>
> (lldb) po (const char*) CPLGetConfigOption("GDAL_DATA")
> "/Users/ccorbell/Development/working/ccorbell_27x_MBP/IP
> Source/Plug-ins/Common/Data/GIS/gdal/"
>
> (lldb) po (const char*) CPLFindFile("gdal", "gmlasconf.xml")
> "/Users/ccorbell/Development/working/ccorbell_27x_MBP/AppSource/ThirdPartySource/GDAL/config/gdal-3.3.1-x86_64/share/gdal/gmlasconf.xml"
>
>
> Thanks,
> Christopher
>
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