[Gdal-dev] BigTIFF support

[Frank Warmerdam]

Luis Viveros wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have tried to generate a big tiff file (~16GB) with the svn version. 
> When trying to create the file with gdalwarp (with -co BIGTIFF=YES) it 
> fails.
> 
> I have tried both the internal libtiff and also the tiff-4.0.0alpha.
> 
> When running the configure options --with-libtiff=internal or 
> --with-libtiff=yes or even 
> --with-libtiff=/usr/local/src/tiff-4.0.0alpha/libtiff, GDAL is 

Luis,

Are you trying to point --with-libtiff at a libtiff build directory or
an installed directory?  Normally you would build and install libtiff4
somewhere (perhaps /usr/local) and then configure GDAL using --with-libtiff
pointing to the installed directory.

Best regards,
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