[gdal-dev] MrSID won't compile with GDAL 1.9 - libgeotiff issue

Etienne Tourigny etourigny.dev at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 18:15:20 EDT 2012


I am able to compile MrSID SDK with gdal-1.9 (custom install, not
ubuntugis) in Ubuntu 11.10, so probably something different in the
ubuntugis install of gdal, as suggested bu Even.

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
> Le mardi 03 avril 2012 23:07:51, Gavin Fleming a écrit :
>> Hi
>>
>> I've just upgraded to gdal 1.9 on Ubuntu 11.10. When I tried to compile
>> MrSID support (which was working fine in 1.8) I get this:
>>
>> checking for XTIFFClientOpen in -lgeotiff... no
>> configure: error: libgeotiff is required to build GDAL MrSID driver
>>
>> with both these MrSID versions:
>>
>> gdal-mrsid-build
>> /usr/local/MrSID_DSDK-8.5.0.3422-linux.x86-64.gcc44/Raster_DSDK/
>> (for this I also had to disable jp2mrsid in the gdal-mrsid-build script)
>>
>> and
>>
>> gdal-mrsid-build /usr/local/Geo_DSDK-7.0.0.2167/
>>
>> I have libgeotiff 1.3 and 1.2.5 installed.
>>
>> Anyone had the same experience?
>
> Hum, this should be something to report to the ubuntugis team. This build
> script isn't maintained by the GDAL project itself.
>
> Looking at the symbols needed by libltidsdk.so from the 8.0.0 SDK, there's no
> reason from requiring libgeotiff to build the MrSID SDK.
>
> I'm wondering if this error doesn't come from the fact that GDAL 1.9.0 in
> ubuntugis is now built with versionned symbols now.
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