[gdal-dev] Backporting rename-internal-libtiff-symbols to GDAL 1.8.0 ubuntu package ?

[Julien Malik]

Hi Francesco,
>> My initial thought without checking :
>> I don't think it should cause any ABI problem. IMHO, the symbols of the
>> internal libtiff and libgeotiff have never been thought as belonging to the GDAL
>> API/ABI. I believe that Debian uses --with-hide-internal-symbols by the way
>> (to be confirmed by the package mainteners of course), so those symbols were
>> already not available to binaries linking to GDAL.
>>
> Confirmed. On those regards I would appreciate if you would have a try
> in linking by using current experimental gdal 1.8.1 available in the archive.
> On the basis of my trials tiff/geotiff/gdal can now be linked together in
> whatever order without problems, with that version.
>

I don't have a Debian unstable at hand to test, but I'll ask our Debian 
devs to give it a shot.

Julien