[Geotiff] listgeo/geotifcp and gdal

[Conrad Bielski]

Dear David (and Scott),
Thanks for the solution including the config scripting (helps a lot!).

So it works... partially. At the moment, I can now use listgeo correctly and it provides the information that I require. The next step however is not working and I'm not sure whether it is because it is a bug or a feature that should be added to geotifcp.

The issue is that when I try to create my new geotif with geotifcp, I get errors "TIFFAppendToStrip: Maximum TIFF file size exceeded" and the file is not larger than 4GB. Reading the geotifcp info pages, I came to realise that it is actually calling tiffcp to create the final geotiff.

Now, tiffcp has a parameter (-8) that forces the creation of BigTiff. This is not available in geotifcp. Is this the reason why I'm getting this error? For whatever reason, it is not automatically understanding that it should create a BigTIFF output (even when I force -c none).

BTW, I did not follow David's recommendation 'exactly'. I am using tiff-4.0.0beta6, I tested the latest geotiff releases (including: libgeotiff-1.3.0, libgeotiff-1.3.0RC2, and an svn co), and gdal-1.8. None seemed to get passed this BigTIFF creation issue.

Have a great day,
Conrad :)

--- On Tue, 3/1/11, David Burken <dburken at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: David Burken <dburken at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Geotiff] listgeo/geotifcp and gdal
> To: "Conrad Bielski" <conrad_bielski at yahoo.com>
> Cc: geotiff at lists.maptools.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 3:42 PM
> Conrad,
> 
> Here's what I do.  I build my own libtiff, libgeotiff
> and gdal from svn.  I install each to a local
> sandbox.  Then set the sandbox bin in my PATH and lib
> in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  A wise friend of mine (thanks
> Scott) taught me a long time ago to make a config script for
> each library for the configure line and run it.  So I
> do:
> 
> // Build libtiff:
> cd libtiff
> ./mylibtiffconfig.sh
> make
> make install
> 
> // Build geotiff:
> cd libgeotiff
> ./mylibgeotiffconfig.sh
> make
> make install
> 
> // Build gdal
> cd gdal
> ./mygdalconfig.sh
> make
> make install
> 
> In you bash dot files add your install bin to your
> PATH.  If you go to /usr/local you may not need.
> In you bash dot files add your install lib to your
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$.  If you go to /usr/local you may not
> need.
> 
> Snip from .bashrc (or wherever):
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/work/osgeo/local/lib
> PATH=/work/osgeo/local/bin:${PATH}
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH PATH
> 
> // Contents of mylibtiffconfig.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> # File: mylibtiffconfig.sh
> prefix=/work/osgeo/local
> ./configure --prefix=${prefix}
> 
> // Contents of mylibgeotiffconfig.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> # File: mylibgeotiffconfig.sh
> prefix=/work/osgeo/local
> ./configure --prefix=${prefix}
> --with-proj=/work/osgeo/local
> --with-libtiff=/work/osgeo/local
> 
> // Contents of mygdalconfig.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> # File: mygdalconfig.sh
> prefix=/work/osgeo/local
> ./configure --prefix=${prefix}
> --with-libtiff=/work/osgeo/local
> --with-geotiff=/work/osgeo/local
> 
> Obviously your config scripts could have man other
> options.  Like here is my real gdal config:
> #!/bin/sh
> # File: mygdalconfig.sh
> prefix=/work/osgeo/local
> ./configure --prefix=${prefix}
> --with-kakadu=/work/drb/kakadu/latest
> --with-hdf4=/work/osgeo/local --with-hdf5=/work/osgeo/local
> --with-libtiff=/work/osgeo/local
> --with-geotiff=/work/osgeo/local
> --with-mrsid=/work/drb/mrsid/Geo_DSDK-7.0.0.2167
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Dave
> 
> On 03/01/2011 04:55 PM, Conrad Bielski wrote:
> > Hello geotiff list!
> > 
> > Today I created my first BifTIFF (6.7 Gb) using gdal
> (1.8) and I needed to use listgeo for some projection
> injection which I have done with regular size tiff files in
> the past. The problem is that when I run listgeo on the
> BigTIFF, I get an error that states libtiff does not support
> BigTIFF.
> > 
> > Here is some background to this problem. I'm running
> CentOS 5.4 which obviously has it's own libtif libraries in
> the system specified areas required to run many system
> programs but I build gdal with libtiff and geotiff =
> internal and keep those libraries in a local directory
> because I want to have access to the latest and greatest for
> my geoprocessing.
> > 
> > What I would like to know is how can I install the
> listgeo/geotifcp tools so that they link to the local gdal
> tiff libraries (which I know are BigTIFF ready)?
> > 
> > Today, I tried installing geotiff from sources after
> having installed gdal with the interal tiff libraries. Using
> the configuration script I passed the local lib and include
> directories of the gdal install. When it finished, I ran ldd
> listgeo and geotiff points to the correct local library but
> tiff points to the system tiff library files in /usr/lib64.
> > 
> > Anyone have any suggestions?
> > Thanks and have a great day,
> > Conrad :)
> > 
> > 
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