[ELGIS] Fwd: [gdal-dev] Libtiff 4.0.0 Released

[Mathieu Baudier]

ELGIS (6) already provides libtiff, so why not upgrade it to 4.0 and
rebuild everything against it?

Frank was never keen on the current version anyhow (as he put again in this
announcement)
On 23 Dec 2011 15:00, "Peter Hopfgartner" <peter.hopfgartner at r3-gis.com>
wrote:

> **
> I do think that this is of a certain interest to us.
>
> Should we try to include this in ELGIS? Should we craete an libtiff4
> package that can be installed in parallel to the current package? Every
> package needing LibTIFF 4 must be recompiled, anyway.
>
> Peter
>
> -------- Original Message --------  Subject: [gdal-dev] Libtiff 4.0.0
> Released  Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:40:30 -0800  From: Frank Warmerdam
> <warmerdam at pobox.com> <warmerdam at pobox.com>  To: GeoTIFF Mailing List
> <geotiff at lists.maptools.org> <geotiff at lists.maptools.org>, gdal dev
> <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>  CC: Bob
> Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us>
>
> Folks,
>
> Of interest to many GeoTIFF and GDAL users, Bob Friesenhahn
> has announced:
>
> """
> At long last, libtiff 4.0.0 is finally released.  Libtiff 4.0.0 is the
> successor to the libtiff 3.9.X release series.  It is intended to be
> largely API compatible with the 3.9.X releases, but it is definitely
> not ABI compatible so any software which plans to use it will need to
> be recompiled.  With appropriate care, source code can easily compile
> with both the 3.9.X releases and libtiff 4.0.0.
>
> This release supports the BigTIFF TIFF format in which all offsets are
> unsigned 64-bit, supporting huge files.  APIs which deal with tag
> offsets are necessarily updated to pass 64-bit values.  I/O functions
> supporting the TIFFClientOpen() interface are updated to pass 64-bit
> offset values.
>
> Please visit the libtiff page at http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/
> to learn more about the release, or to download it.
> """"
>
> Note that GDAL's internal version of libtiff has tracked libtiff4 for several
> years, and it is substantially preferred to using libtiff 3.9 which
> lacks bigtiff
> and many fixes of value to GDAL.  Libgeotiff should work smoothly with
> libtiff 3.9.x or libtiff 4.0.
>
> Best regards,
> --
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