[Liblas-devel] libgeotiff / cpl / libspatialreference.hpp changes

[Julien Malik]

Hello,

I confirm it fixes the problem on my platform (ubuntu 10.10 - gcc 4.5 - 
gdal 1.7.2 - geotiff 1.2.5)

Thanks
Julien

Le 15/11/2010 17:44, Frank Warmerdam a écrit :
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> Julien Malik wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I encountered this bug, as did a lot of OrfeoToolbox users since we 
>>> updated to liblas 1.6.0b2.
>>> It affects at least Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, OpenSuse 11.2, 11.3 and 
>>> OpenBSD 4.8+
>>> I personnally use ubuntu 10.10 with gdal/geotiff from 
>>> ubuntugis/unstable repo, which gives me recent versions (gdal 1.7.2 
>>> and geotiff 1.2.5), and it still does not work.
>>
>> Julien,
>>
>> Note that while these are reasonably recent, they are not current.
>>
>>> So currently, gdal/geotiff support in liblas seems broken. I tested 
>>> with yesterday's trunk.
>>>
>>> Just wanted to know if this problem will be addressed before the 
>>> next release ?
>> >
>>> Or you will rely on the end-user to hand-modify a geotiff header 
>>> (which he may not have access to) ?
>>
>> I will investigate if there is a cleaner mechanism of handling this
>> issue.  Would you like to file a ticket with liblas's trac on the
>> problem so we can keep track of progress?
>>
>> Best regards,
>
> Julien and others,
>
> I have made a change in liblas trunk such that updating to the very 
> newest
> libgeotiff or hand editing of geo_simpletags.h should no longer be
> necessary.  The changes are documented at:
>
>   http://trac.liblas.org/ticket/194
>
> In the longer term I'd like to strip some of the libgeotiff and gdal
> includes out of libspatialreference.hpp so we don't have such widespread
> interaction of environments.   But I'm not sure this is the right time to
> do that.
>
> Best regards,