Re: itk and tiff

[Paul Novotny <paul@paulnovo.us>]

On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 00:56 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Just getting back to some ITK work...
> 
> On February 13, 2013 08:21:52 AM Paul Novotny wrote:
> 
> > So, long story short, we should use system tiff
> > (-DITK_USE_SYSTEM_TIFF:BOOL=ON) and apply the attached patch. Or, not
> > use system tiff and use the patch in [1]. I vote for using system tiff.
> 
> I agree.  
> 
> So I turned on system tiff, added your patch, and updated the
> build depends.  Depending on libtiff5-dev failed due to conflict with libvtk5-
> dev, so I used libtiff5-alt-dev instead.  I presume you did the same, yes?

Now that I look back, I am not sure what I did. I might still be using
libtiff4-dev? But in any case, did libtiff5-alt-dev work? That seems to
be the way to go.

Anyway I should probably summarize what I have been trying to do lately.
Basically, I have been trying to get all the tests to pass on a sparc
machine. From what I can tell, most of them have to do with gdcm, and it
not working on a big-endian machine. I noticed that gdcm itself is built
with testing off, and when you turn it back on, all sorts of tests fail,
so that isn't good. Anyway, I will continue to try and make some sense
of it.

-Paul