[gdal-dev] OBus error when writing GeoTiffs

[Chris Garrard]

Even,

I compiled the beta and now it works.  Thanks!

For the record, I'm using the GNU tools.

Chris

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at mines-paris.org>wrote:

> Chris,
>
> I'd bet too that you are hitting a problem with unaligned access on Sparc
> architecture when dereferencing some pointers that is present in the
> TIFFWriteDirectorySec function of the internal libtiff in GDAL 1.5.X
>
> (I don't think that the compiler used would make any difference.)
>
> This problem was reported and fixed as
> http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1892
>
> Current internal libtiff in GDAL 1.6.0beta has the above fix and should
> hopefully work.
>
> Le Friday 14 November 2008 20:26:24 Frank Warmerdam, vous avez écrit :
> > Chris Garrard wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've compiled GDAL 1.5.3 on Solaris 10, using internal support for tiff
> > > and gtiff.  When I try to create a new GTiff using gdal_translate, it
> > > fails with "OBus Error".  That's all the information I get.
> > >
> > > The problem is only with writing GTiffs, not reading them.  I can
> > > convert a tiff to another format, get information about them with
> > > gdalinfo, and am using them with MapServer built with GDAL support.  I
> > > can write to other formats without a problem.
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > Any chance of running things in gdb or dbx and getting a traceback?
> >
> > I assume this is Solaris on Sparc?  Often problems on this architecture
> > are byte order or "double alignment" issues.
> >
> > Is this a 32bit or 64 bit build?  Are you using the GNU or Sun tool
> chains?
> >
> > Best regards,
>
>
>
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