{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda-recipes/issues/211","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda-recipes/issues/211/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda-recipes/issues/211/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda-recipes/issues/211/events","html_url":"https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes/issues/211","id":50384570,"number":211,"title":"gdal_merge.py missing from gdal install on windows","user":{"login":"jahfet","id":4275603,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4275603?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jahfet","html_url":"https://github.com/jahfet","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jahfet/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jahfet/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jahfet/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jahfet/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jahfet/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jahfet/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jahfet/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jahfet/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jahfet/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2014-11-28T15:35:21Z","updated_at":"2015-01-30T12:49:44Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I am not sure if this is the correct place to report the issue...\r\n\r\n\r\nWhen installing gdal through conda install gdal on windows, [gdal_merge.py](http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal/swig/python/scripts/gdal_merge.py) is not available in C:\\Anaconda\\Lib\\site-packages\\osgeo unlike all the other gdal utilities (gdalwarp, etc)\r\n\r\nIt appears to be present on linux.\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda-recipes/issues/comments/72196103","html_url":"https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes/issues/211#issuecomment-72196103","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda-recipes/issues/211","id":72196103,"user":{"login":"rsignell-usgs","id":1872600,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1872600?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs","html_url":"https://github.com/rsignell-usgs","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rsignell-usgs/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-01-30T12:49:43Z","updated_at":"2015-01-30T12:49:43Z","body":"I also just hit this problem with GDAL on Anaconda 64bit Windows.    \r\n\r\nIt's interesting that `gdalinfo.exe` and other `.exe` files are present, but not `gdal_merge.py`.    \r\n\r\nOther problems with the conda GDAL package for windows are:\r\n* missing `include` directory (which means that trying to build other conda packages like `rasterio` fail)\r\n* missing `share` directory (which means that gdal projection conversion and many other utilities will fail because they cannot load info about projections)\r\n\r\n@ilanschnell or @asmeurer , is the problem here that the conda package was converted from a Gohlke binary and these aspects got missed by the automatic conversion process?  "}}