[Mapserver-users] How to force GDAL to read tiffs?

[Jason M. Nielsen]

Quoting Paco Regodon <mapserver at meteologica.es>:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> i am using mapserver-4.0-1mdk, the rpm package from Mandrake. It is compiled
> 
> with tiff support:
> 
> $ /var/www/cgi-bin/mapserv -v
> MapServer version 4.0 OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP SUPPORTS=PROJ 
> SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT
> 
> INPUT=TIFF INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=JPEG INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
> 
> 
> Is there any way i can force using GDAL to read tiff images? I can't compile
> 
> my own version. Is there any mapfile directive similar to OUTPUTFORMAT to 
> force using GDAL instead of builtin support?

If I recall there is an option --WITHOUT-TIFF or something similar. There is at
least one thread on the mailing list about this. I had the same problem.
Basically if you tell mapserver itself no tiff but also tell it use gdal TIFF
suport will just be automagically used via gdal.