[gdal-dev] geotiff conflict

[MALIK Julien]

Quoting "Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie at debian.org>:

> 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.

Oh GREAT !
So I guess the issue will be closed soon. Very, very good news for us  
OrfeoToolbox users.

Thanks so much for considering this !

>
> --
> Francesco P. Lovergine
>
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