GDAL and GIS missing LD Library error message.
Currently the error message for GDAL and GIS when not locating the required library is:
Could not find the GDAL library (tried "%s"). Is GDAL installed? If it is, try setting GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH in your settings.
It's probably better to advise checking the Library Path before setting it to the project settings file, maybe as a last resort. For many MacOS homebrew users, the library might be not installed in the default library PATH (for instance, homebrew installs it to /opt/homebrew/lib/), non visible library paths in default environment is I think relatively common.
My advise is to print "... If it is, check your environment library path or try setting GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH in your settings."
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set to Julia Singh
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→ invalid
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assigned → closed
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contrib.postgres → GIS
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Yes, however I don't think we should advise changing library paths for every custom library. Folks who know how to do it and want to do it will do this anyway.This is not something that Django should advise as it's not directly related with Django. Adding
GDAL_LIBRARY_PATHto the settings is Django's way of fixing this.