[Gdal-dev] Re: ECW on Debain Etch AMD64 solution

[Frank Warmerdam]

Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov wrote:
> Frank,
> 
>       I had earlier success on a 32 bit etch machine, before the merge of
> the gcc 4.1 compiler.  This was a fresh install last week on a Intel Core
> Duo 2 box.
> 
>       Originally, I had installed the FWtools-1.1.3 32 bit binary package
> on the Debian etch box and it did a great job converting several Gigabytes
> of SID files to Imagine format.
> 
>       However, when I went to chop out quarter quad sized tiffs from the
> imagine files and convert them to ecw format, I would get the following
> message:
> Input file size is 6427, 7587
> 0...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90...libgcc_s.so.1 must be
> installed for pthread_cancel to work

Doug,

I'm pleased you were successful.  The above problem with FWTools happens to
me too sometimes.  I don't quite understand the issue ... some sort of
subtle pthreads/clib versioning issue I suspect.

Best regards,
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