I have been struggling to get python setup to do some image processing, so I really need the <http://www.gdal.org/> GDAL libraries installed on CentOS 6.5. I want to install the package in a local folder (maybe `/workspace/GDAL`) without root access. When I try to build from source, it seems CentOS is missing a bunch of libraries.

I will be using it for opening HDF4, HDF4-EOS files, and have a local installation of the HDF4/HDF5 libraries (say `/workspace/HDF`). 

If I can install a binary without root, is there a way to point GDAL to these libraries?