gdal/mapserver build question

[Frank Warmerdam]

B Tuttle wrote:
> Building without reference to Libtiff seems to allow LZW encodding.
> The IT people who will be maintaing the box I am working on would
> rather not have to deal with installing libraries (ie a new libtiff)
> which would not be covered by redhats up2date. So I am wondering if
> there are any pitfalls anyone is aware of to using the gdal internal
> support, in particular for tiff/geotiff, but also for the other
> formats above. Seems like this would avoid the possiblity of library
> updates breaking something. Any thoughts or reccomendations would be
> greatly appreciated.

B.

I think others have pretty much covered this.  If you build GDAL with
the internal libtiff, and build mapserver --without-tiff you should be
fine.  The main danger is if some other component also links in a libtiff
and gets the system libtiff.

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