[gdal-dev] GDAL install and run with a single command

[Petr Pridal - Klokan Technologies GmbH]

Even,

thanks for the tip. The binaries are build against the stable debian. We
will adjust the Dockerfile and republish the binaries soon.

Regards,

Petr

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Petr,
>
> I can see that the libgdal in the Docker image is linked against
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.4
> which happens to be 3.9.6-11. GDAL itself contains a copy of libtiff 4.0.X
> that will get used,
> so you can potentially have a mix of libtiff symbols of different ABI that
> could lead to crashes if an application
> links against libgdal and this external libtiff in the wrong order (this
> isn't a theoretical concern.
> The Orfeo Toolbok folks have suffered from that at a time). This linking
> against system libtiff 3.X
> actually comes from libpodofo AFAICS. To be safe in GDAL and avoid any
> potential symbol clashes,
> you'd better add to the configure options of GDAL :
> "--with-hide-internal-symbols=yes --with-libtiff=internal
> --with-rename-internal-libtiff-symbols"
>
> That's what the UbuntuGIS packagers do.
> See for example
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable/+files/gdal_1.11.0%2Bdfsg-1%7Eexp2%7Etrusty2.debian.tar.gz
>
> That doesn't seem to cause problems in that instance, but this is a bit by
> chance...
>
> Even
>
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > If you want to use the latest stable GDAL, for example on a newly
> installed
> > Linux machine to do some fast raster data processing with the
> command-line
> > utilities, and you need drivers like MrSID, ECW or Kakadu JPEG2000, you
> may
> > very probably end up compiling everything yourself. It takes time and you
> > need to install a lot of dev packages extra to deploy the working
> > environment.
> >
> > That's why we created a minimal GDAL in Docker container (about 350MB).
> >
> > On any computer with Docker installed (see
> > https://docs.docker.com/installation/#installation) you can download and
> > run any GDAL utility with a single command.
> >
> > For example gdalinfo on yourfile.tif stored in local directory:
> >
> > $ docker run -ti --rm -v $(pwd):/data klokantech/gdal gdalinfo
> yourfile.tif
> >
> > and similar with other GDAL tools. For more details see:
> >
> > https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/klokantech/gdal/
> >
> > and our blog post:
> >
> >
> http://blog.klokantech.com/2015/02/gdal-in-docker-install-run-with-single.h
> > tml
> >
> > This Docker container has been made to simplify distribution of MapTiler
> > Pro, the follower of my GDAL2Tiles, which is now available from
> > http://www.maptiler.com/.
> >
> > Thanks everybody for the great work on GDAL!
> >
> > I hope you find our docker container useful.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Petr
>
> --
> Spatialys - Geospatial professional services
> http://www.spatialys.com
>



-- 
Petr Pridal, Ph.D.
(managing director)

Klokan Technologies GmbH
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