[gdal-dev] TIFFMergeFieldInfo error when adding overviews to large tiff

[Eli Adam]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
> I've investigated a bit and I've discovered that while computing overviews,
> libtiff constantly switches from TIFF "directories" (main image, first
> overview,second overview, etc...). While doing this, it calls each time client
> code to install its own TIFF tags (libgeotiff for the geotiff tags, GDAL for the
> GDAL specific TIFF tags), but doesn't reset its array of existing tags. So each
> time the tags are added again and again, hence the huge memory allocation.
>
> Could you test the attached patch (assuming you build GDAL with internal
> libtiff) ?

I can apply and test this on linux but don't know how to do it on
windows.  I usually use the nightly windows builds from Tamas.  Should
I test this on linux?

>
> It would be good if you could also open a ticket in Trac about that issue.

I've opened a ticket, http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/5054

Eli