[ELGIS] How to enable BigTiff on Centos 6?

[Volker Fröhlich]

On 03/24/2014 09:21 PM, David Strom wrote:
> 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
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I suppose you'll need libtiff 4, but libgeotiff must be built on libtiff 4.

Volker