[El] GDAL 1.7.3 in elgis-testing

[Ralph Apel]

Never a strong requirement.
Only that in my experience it is most often worth while to "build it all
- leave nothing behind" :-)

On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 21:56 +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
> > 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).