Bug 296301

Summary:	RFE: sci-libs/gdal bigtiff support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	kavol
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Steve Arnold <nerdboy>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	sci-geosciences
Priority:	High	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description kavol 2009-12-09 11:07:54 UTC

Hi.

I need bigtiff support in gdal (to create hillshading for a tourist map based on OpenStreetMap). Unfortunately, the current version of libtiff (media-libs/tiff) does not support bigtiff, it is added in version 4, which is (and seems going to be for a while) still just beta. This can be workarounded by using gdal's internal copy of libtiff by passing --with-libtiff=internal to configure.

While I understand there is policy not to use bundled libraries, it'd be nice to have an exception if the system-wide library does not provide the needed functionality. Please add the "bigtiff" USE flag that would allow bigtiff support.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-10-04 14:53:01 UTC

Latest gdal depend on beta tiff that provide bigtiff functionality

Comment 2 kavol 2010-10-21 16:55:37 UTC

thanks, great, worksforme
gdal-1.7.2-r1 with tiff-4.0.0_beta6

(well ... I was a bit surprised that I had to do revdep-rebuild prior using gdal because it somehow used the old libtiff even if I updated tiff *prior* to compiling gdal ...)