Index: /issm/trunk-jpl/externalpackages/gdal/install-1.10-linux64.sh
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--- /issm/trunk-jpl/externalpackages/gdal/install-1.10-linux64.sh	(revision 20737)
+++ /issm/trunk-jpl/externalpackages/gdal/install-1.10-linux64.sh	(revision 20738)
@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@
 ./configure \
 	--prefix="$ISSM_DIR/externalpackages/gdal/install" \
-	--with-python \
+	--with-python="$ISSM_DIR/externalpackages/python/install/bin/python" \
 	--with-netcdf=no \
 	--with-jasper=no \
@@ -39,2 +39,7 @@
 fi
 make install
+
+#For some reasons, on thwaites, one needs to do the following to get the python bindings:
+#cd src/swig/python/
+# python setup.py build
+# python setup.py install
