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Why does Xastir seg-fault sometimes when indexing or loading geoTIFF images?

April 26, 2017GeoTIFF images indexing loading seg-fault xastir

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Why does Xastir seg-fault sometimes when indexing or loading geoTIFF images?

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The geoTIFF code must use an API in the TIFF code that is non-public. Unfortunately this means that the geoTIFF code must know more about TIFF than the normal application using the TIFF library. If the private TIFF include file included with the geoTIFF code doesn’t match your installed version of TIFF, you can run into seg-fault problems. Solutions for this include: • Installing TIFF from sources, or • Grabbing the sources for your installed version of TIFF, copying one include file from TIFF into the geoTIFF sources and recompiling/installing geoTIFF. Either of these solutions will make the geoTIFF code recognize and use the proper structures in TIFF should prevent the seg-faulting. In the future we hope that either the geoTIFF code will become part of the TIFF code, or that the private TIFF API will become public. Either of these changes should fix this problem for good.