[gdal-dev] Problems with reading large NITF files

Sophia Parafina sophia.parafina at ionicenterprise.com
Tue Dec 11 13:27:31 EST 2007


Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>
> OpenEV sometimes does a prepass to get a rough histgram so it's behavior
> can be fairly variable.
>
> But gdal_translate (for a one band file) should just read top to bottom.
>
> The problem sounds a bit like you might have built GDAL without large 
> file
> support.  If that happened, it would not (generally) successfully read
> past the 2GB mark and for some drivers it might not even realize that it
> isn't working properly.  What platform is this on?
>
OpenSuse 10 on a dual core 2 duo server.
> In the configure results you are looking specifically for this item:
>
>   checking for 64bit file io... yes
>
OK, it the config logs  say it did, but since the libgdal.so is if 
unknown provenance, I'll try rebuilding it again.
> In particular, getting 64bit io enabled on exotic unix operating systems
> can be a bit of a hassle.
>
> Best regards,
Thanks,

sophia


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