[Xastir] Geotiff

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:


>>   -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 ld: table of contents for archive: /sw/lib/libgeotiff.a is out of date;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?

incidentally, the hacks in the darwinports geotiff package to build a 
dylib are probably useful for fixing the "you have a .so, i want a .dylib" 
problem here. i never figured out how to extract them to recontribute