[gdal-dev] geotiff conflict

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 07:55:00PM +0200, Even Rouault wrote:
> > What can we do to help find a solution (what kind of modification to the
> > gdal debian package would you agree to make to solve this issue) ?
> 
> I'm not sure the solution is really in the debian packaging...
> 
> There are indeed very few (safe and easy) options :
> - build the GDAL package to link with system/external libtiff and libgeotiff. 
> But then you loose bigtiff support
> - or make libtiff 4.X the system libtiff version (as in debian experimental)
> 
> > Do you have pointers on those "versioned symbols" you were referring to ?
> 

Here we go:

http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#id293268

of course this is a possibile solution to avoid symbol collision among
different libraries. It is not a os-independent solution even, so I would
consider it to solve problems in Debian, not a general (upstream) solution.
This is exactly what I'm going to provide in 1.8/experimental for next
library transition.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine