[ELGIS] Fwd: libtiff4

[Peter Hopfgartner]

On 12/04/2012 07:45 PM, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Robert Christian Steinke <rsteinke at uwyo.edu>
> Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:41 PM
> Subject: RE: [ELGIS] libtiff4
> To: Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org>
>
>
> I successfully installed the libtiff4 rpm.  I originally got the
> following message:
>
> [root at ampt Downloads]# rpm -Uvh libtiff4-4.0.3-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>          libtiff-devel conflicts with libtiff4-4.0.3-1.el6.x86_64
>
> I removed libtiff-devel and several other devel packages that depended
> on libtiff-devel and then libtiff4 installed fine.  Even though it
> conflicts with libtiff-devel, it coexists with libtiff just fine.
>
> [root at ampt Downloads]# rpm -qa | grep tiff
> libtiff-3.9.4-6.el6_3.i686
> libtiff-3.9.4-6.el6_3.x86_64
> libtiff4-4.0.3-1.el6.x86_64
> libgeotiff-1.3.0-4.el6.x86_64
>
> I think you do need to create a libgeotiff4 that uses libtiff4.  I can
> still use gdal, but it won't create BigTIFFs so I assume it is using
> libgeotiff-1.3.0, which is still using libtiff-3.9.4.  Will you also
> need to recompile all of the applications to use libgeotiff4?
Yes, you need to recompile libgeotiff. The same holds true for the 
applications. Personally, I did this for GDAL and MapServer. libtiff4 
together with libjpeg-turbo gave us a very powerfull soution for raster 
data, competing with ECW in terms of speed and space efficiency.

Peter

> This is great progress and thanks for getting to this so quickly.
>
> Bob Steinke
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Mathieu Baudier [mbaudier at argeo.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 4:23 AM
> To: Robert Christian Steinke
> Subject: Re: [ELGIS] libtiff4
>
> Hello,
>
> I have merged Peter's spec file, updated to the latest libtiff
> (v4.0.3) and deployed to ELGIS6 Testing x86_64.
>
> I haven't tested it. Please kindly test it and give us feedback.
>
> Should we also create a libgeotiff4 based on libtiff4 ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mathieu
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Robert Christian Steinke
> <rsteinke at uwyo.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks.  It's not urgent, but I'd like to have it by maybe around the end of January.  I could help if there's anything useful I could do.
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Mathieu Baudier [mbaudier at argeo.org]
>> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 1:39 PM
>> To: Robert Christian Steinke
>> Cc: el at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [ELGIS] libtiff4
>>
>>> I'm new to the list so sorry if this has been asked before.  I looked in the
>>> archives and there was an email in February from Peter Hopfgartner that
>>> seemed to indicate it was successfully integrated.
>>>
>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/el/2012-February/000929.html
>> I had forgotten this one.
>> I will try to integrate Peter's spec file from the link above over the
>> next few weeks.
>>
>> Is it urgent for you?
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