[gdal-dev] GDAL 1.6.1 RC2 Released

[Even Rouault]

William,

I've verified that one of the updates of internal libtiff from CVS head 
includes two missing byte-swapping (see 
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset/16836#file5 and 
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1924) that explain the error you 
get with an older libtiff 4.0beta.

I'm not very surprised that upgrading to the new libtiff version is necessary 
for the current geotiff driver, as it just worked by chance with the 
combination of geotiff driver & internal libtiff of 1.6.0, so the conclusion 
is : just upgrade your libtiff to CVS head or use internal libtiff.

About gdalbuildvrt, some people apparently wanted it badly in 1.6.1, so here 
it is ;-) The related man and HTML pages for the utility will also be 
generated in the build process (if that's what you mean by "a new doc package 
with a help file for this").

Best regards,

Even

Le Tuesday 12 May 2009 06:38:51 William Kyngesburye, vous avez écrit :
> Same external libtiff 4 beta and internal geotiff as I've always
> used.  Actually newer, beta 3, than I used in GDAL 1.6.0 (beta 2).
> Maybe something important has been updated in libtiff since beta 3?
>
> I see that there are a lot of very recent changes in the internal
> libtiff, maybe they are related to the many changes in the gtiff
> driver.  If so, it would be nice to have a new libtiff beta.
>
> On May 11, 2009, at 11:08 PM, Ivan wrote:
> > William,
> >
> > I might be wrong but I think that this TIFFReadDirectory error is
> > because you need to use the GDAL internal libtiff/geotiff libraries
> > as in Linux:
> >
> > ./configure --with-libtiff=internal --with-geotiff=internal
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ivan
> >
> > William Kyngesburye wrote:
> >> Just got done testing RC1... Autotests all OK on OSX except for a
> >> new failure:
> >>  TEST: tiff_ovr_10: tiff_ovr_10_interverted ... ERROR 1:
> >> TIFFFetchDirectory:tmp/ovr10.tif: Can not read TIFF directory count
> >> ERROR 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Failed to read directory at offset
> >> 1276248064
> >> fail
> >>    Failed to open copy of test dataset.
>
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