[ELGIS] How to enable BigTiff on Centos 6?

[David Strom]

My colleagues are getting the error, ERROR 6 ...
image would be larger than 4GB ...
... and BigTIFF is unavailable..

 From within grass (GRASS GIS 6.4.2).

Centos 6.4 on this system, and the following installed from elgis 
repository, etc.:

grass.x86_64           6.4.2-8.el6      @elgis
grass-libs.x86_64      6.4.2-8.el6      @elgis

gdal.x86_64            1.9.2-4.el6      @elgis
gdal-devel.x86_64      1.9.2-4.el6      @elgis
gdal-java.x86_64       1.9.2-4.el6      @elgis
gdal-libs.x86_64       1.9.2-4.el6      @elgis
gdal-perl.x86_64       1.9.2-4.el6      @elgis
gdal-python.x86_64     1.9.2-4.el6      @elgis


libtiff.x86_64         3.9.4-9.el6_3 
@anaconda-CentOS-201303020151.x86_64/6.4
libtiff-devel.x86_64   3.9.4-9.el6_3    @base


Odd thing is, we have an Ubuntu 12.0.4 system with slightly older 
versions, it has no problem with large GeoTIFFs.

Do I just need some additional package(s), or is the gdal/grass/libtiff 
build lacking the capability, so I need to build my own, which I'm 
trying to avoid, as this is not my specialty.

I did try installing libtiff4, no improvement.

TIA, for any help from anyone.
--
Dave