[gdal-dev] building against external tiff/geotiff sources ?

[Greg Troxel]

Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> writes:

> On 3/4/23 11:10, Landry Breuil wrote:
>> what do other packagers of gdal think about it ? Providing an
>> option/flavor for end-users of the packaging system to build against
>> internal copies might also be possible, but that creates havoc in
>> dependency trees..
>
> The Debian package will keep using the external tiff because we don't
> want to deal with the tiff security updates in the embedded copy.
>
> Features that are only available when using the embedded copy won't be
> enabled in the Debian package.
>
> The only sane way forward is to not use private functions of tiff.

With s/Debian/pkgsrc/, +1.

The right fix is that if gdal needs private APIs, to add public APIs in
tiff.