[Xastir] libgeotiff 1.2.0 info

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

This might answer some of the questions with respect to libgeotiff
1.2.0.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:26:01 -0500
From: Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
Reply-To: geotiff at remotesensing.org
To: geotiff at remotesensing.org
Subject: Re: [GeoTIFF] Solaris/SPARC 9 64-Bit Question

Faulconer, Steven M. wrote:
> I hate replying to my own message, but I found most of a solution. I was
> actually editing the wrong files (go figure). I've gotten past the silly
> u_long error, but now I have the following:
>
> [ steve @ tapeserv ] : make
> cc -c -Xa -fast -xO4 -xarch=generic64 -xstrconst -mt -I/usr/sfw/include
> -L/usr/sfw/lib -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib
> -DCSV_DATA_DIR=\"/usr/local/share/epsg_csv\" -I. -I.   ./libxtiff/xtiff.c
> "./libxtiff/xtiff.c", line 9: undefined symbol: FIELD_CUSTOM
> "./libxtiff/xtiff.c", line 9: non-constant initializer: op "NAME"
> "./libxtiff/xtiff.c", line 11: non-constant initializer: op "NAME"
> "./libxtiff/xtiff.c", line 13: non-constant initializer: op "NAME"
> "./libxtiff/xtiff.c", line 15: non-constant initializer: op "NAME"
> "./libxtiff/xtiff.c", line 17: non-constant initializer: op "NAME"
> "./libxtiff/xtiff.c", line 19: non-constant initializer: op "NAME"
> "./libxtiff/xtiff.c", line 21: non-constant initializer: op "NAME"
> "./libxtiff/xtiff.c", line 34: cannot recover from previous errors
> cc: acomp failed for ./libxtiff/xtiff.c
> *** Error code 2
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `xtiff.o'
> [ steve @ tapeserv ] :
>
> I've found several references to this on various different mailing lists,
> and it might be a bug in the Solaris compiler. Anyone else encounter
> something like this?  Thanks again.
>
> Steven


Steven,

I believe this relates to using libgeotiff 1.2.0 with a libtiff from
before 3.6.0 beta ... I note you are using 3.5.7.   If you want to use
libgeotiff 1.2.0 you will also need to update to libtiff 3.6.0 Beta.

Best regards,
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