[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#558733: Bug#558733: [libgdal1-1.6.0] Reading tiff file causes segfault when linked also with geotiff

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 05:40:13PM +0800, Emmanuel Christophe wrote:
> This bug also affects the libgdal1-1.7.0 in experimental.
> 
> However, the latest Ubuntu (10.4) which uses the same gdal, tiff,
> geotiff versions as the debian testing does not have this problem:
> both
> $ ./gdalHideSymbols-gtiffgdal ROI_QB_MUL_4.tif
> $ ./gdalHideSymbols-gdalgtiff ROI_QB_MUL_4.tif
> (from the test case shown at
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558733)
> 
> complete without segfault on Ubuntu using the standard packages.
> 
> I could not find any differences in the compilation options between
> the debian and the ubuntu gdal package (both use the
> with-hide-internal-symbols). The patch applied to gdal for Ubuntu is
> different though.
> 
> Emmanuel

That could be casual, a segfault could not occur but the program
trashing things anyway. I would not consider safe the linking in any
case.

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Francesco P. Lovergine