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

[Peter Hopfgartner]

This seems to be, by far, the cleanest solution. I did not realize that 
we already do have out oun LibTIFF.

Peter

On 12/23/2011 08:46 PM, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto: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>
>     <mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com>
>     To: 	GeoTIFF Mailing List <geotiff at lists.maptools.org>
>     <mailto:geotiff at lists.maptools.org>, gdal dev
>     <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> <mailto:gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
>     CC: 	Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us>
>     <mailto: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 athttp://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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