[El] GDAL 1.7.3 in elgis-testing

[Mathieu Baudier]

> AFAIK and remember, geoserver requires geotools which requires
> imageio-ext which in turn will require its own patched version of the
> gdal java binding.

Are you sure that native libraries are a strong requirement? (rather
than a recommendation for performance reasons)

I remember running GeoServer on CentOS with just plain OpenJdk and no
native libs (neither GDAL/ImageIO nor JAI).