Fixed? RE: [Xastir] Debugging Topo files...

[David Floo]

Well, after going back and doing some recompiles, I noticed that geotif was
complaining about local copies of libtiff...

Finally had to download 3.6.1, compile it, install it with both the make
install and make install-private (or whatever that command was), delete the
libtif's in /usr/lib (couldn't rpm -e them since too many depends on the 3.5
tiff that's installed), switch to geotif 1.2, compile and install it, and
finally recompile xastir.

So it boils down to a missing part of libtif 3.5 in Suse 9.0


-----Original Message-----
From: Curt, WE7U [mailto:archer at eskimo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 10:37 AM
To: Brian D Heaton
Cc: David Floo; xastir at xastir.org
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Debugging Topo files...


On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Brian D Heaton wrote:

> IIRC, there are some interactions between the versions of libtiff and
> libgeotiff.  If you're using tiff v3.5.x you have to use the 1.1.x
> libgeotiff series.  There are instructions in the INSTALL file about
> possibly having to move some files from the tiff tree to the geotiff
> tree.  If you use tiff 3.6.x you can use geotiff 1.2.x.
>
> Also, don't forget to put the NAD27 stuff in the correct directory as
> part of your proj install.  I got bit by that one.
>
> If you've done all the above let me know the versions of all the
> libraries you're using and we'll see what we can figure out.

It sure would be nice if the geotiff/shapelib/libproj code wouldn't bomb out
when it runs across something it doesn't like.  I've tried to fix a few of
those here and there, but some are in the libraries themselves, not in the
Xastir code that uses them.  Those have to be tracked down one by one and
sent back to the author.  It doesn't help that some of the calls have no way
to pass back errors.

I've had similar trouble on several systems with the libgeotiff stuff.  I
usually just set the directories to 000 permissions until I get that stuff
fixed.

I'm fighting through hard drive failures both at home and on the work
desktop machines, so won't be too active on the lists for a bit.  I just did
an SuSE 9.0 install on the work machine (with a new hard drive), so I'll be
fighting the same issue as you sometime in the next week or two.

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