[Gdal-dev] libtiff on solaris - must still patch or simply install new release?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Knut Behrends wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> We have a mapserver +  GDAL 1.2.6.0, released 2005/03/13 running on
> solaris. On the solaris box I cannot use gdal_translate to create tiff
> files - gdal_translate complains about unknown file format tif, and
> although there is a tif file created it is corrupt cannot be opened.
> 
> 
> 
> I have researched a bit... and found this thread on this list , see
> below, or read it online at
> http://www.asmail.be/msg0054915529.html
> 
> It seems to me that the gdal source code must be patched to run properly
> on solaris. Is this still true,  or is the below-mentioned patch now
> (back) in the official code trunk? So can we just upgrade gdal instead,
>  without patching the source code? The previous thread does not answer
> this question.

Knut,

My understanding is that the patch is in recent releases of libtiff.  So
one approach would be to install the latest libtiff release and ensure it
gets used in preference to the system library.

Best regards,
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