gdal/mapserver build question

[B Tuttle]

Thanks for the responses that is the answer I was hoping for. One more
question on this matter does anyone feel like using the internal
support is or is not equally applicable to the other formats (png,
jpeg, gif, pcraster) that gdal seems to have internal support for as
well as libz (which also looks like it has internal support)?

On 10/23/06, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> B Tuttle wrote:
> > Building without reference to Libtiff seems to allow LZW encodding.
> > The IT people who will be maintaing the box I am working on would
> > rather not have to deal with installing libraries (ie a new libtiff)
> > which would not be covered by redhats up2date. So I am wondering if
> > there are any pitfalls anyone is aware of to using the gdal internal
> > support, in particular for tiff/geotiff, but also for the other
> > formats above. Seems like this would avoid the possiblity of library
> > updates breaking something. Any thoughts or reccomendations would be
> > greatly appreciated.
>
> B.
>
> I think others have pretty much covered this.  If you build GDAL with
> the internal libtiff, and build mapserver --without-tiff you should be
> fine.  The main danger is if some other component also links in a libtiff
> and gets the system libtiff.
>
> Best regards,
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