[Xastir] Geotiff

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, N1OFZ wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I have recently built libgeotiff from the 1.2.2 source with no
> problems.  When I rebuild xastir it does not seem to like my build of
> libgeotiff.  I find the following message in config.log:
>
> configure:12858: checking for GTIFNew in -lgeotiff
> configure:12889: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -pipe -Wall
> -I/usr/local/include  -I/sw/include
>   -I/opt/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/local/lib  -L/sw/lib
> -L/opt/lib  -L/usr/X11R6/lib
> conftest.c -lgeotiff  -lXpm -lintl -lcurl -lXm -lXt -lXp -lXext   -lSM
> -lICE -lX11  -lshp -lpcre
> -lproj -ltiff >&5
> ld: table of contents for archive: /sw/lib/libgeotiff.a is out of date;
> rerun ranlib(1)
> (can't load from it)
>
> Any ideas?  I have also done the configure explicitly stating geotiff's
> path but it made no difference.

Interesting that it's trying to mess with the .a library, instead of
a .so.  .a is a static library.  .so is a shared library.  You
should be trying to use the .so instead.  Anyone know why it'd be
trying to link to a static library?

This is on Mac OSX, right?

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