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
Latest gdal depend on beta tiff that provide bigtiff functionality
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 ...)
