[gdal-dev] GDAL 1.6.1 RC2 Released

[William Kyngesburye]

On May 12, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Even Rouault wrote:

> 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.
>
I can update to CVS, but it would be nice to have a new beta package  
so there is some defined reasonably stable point in the source.

> About gdalbuildvrt, some people apparently wanted it badly in 1.6.1,  
> so here
> it is ;-)

Yeah, I've received a few requests for it myself for my OSX binaries ;)

> 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").
>
According to Frank, the doc build option in the source is not really  
meant for public consumption.  I had problems getting doxygen working  
reliably on OSX (something about some extra bits for doxygen needed by  
GDAL?).  Frank has been providing premade doc packages as a separate  
zip download since 1.3.


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