Bug#836308: librasterlite2: FTBFS: geotiff.h:35:24: fatal error: geo_config.h: No such file or directory

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

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Hi Chris,

Thanks for reporting this issue.

The problem became clear from the full buildlog:

 | #include <geotiff.h>
 configure:4832: result: no
 configure:4832: checking for geotiff.h
 configure:4832: result: no
 configure:4846: error: 'libgeotiff' is required but the header
(geotiff.h) doesn't seem to be installed on this system

This is from AC_CHECK_HEADERS(geotiff/geotiff.h) in configure.ac.

The root cause is a change in libgeotiff 1.4.2-RC4 where the includes in
geotiff.h where changed from:

 #include "geo_config.h"

to:

 #include <geo_config.h>

Which breaks with the custom include path (/usr/include/geotiff) used
for the Debian package. I didn't notice this earlier because I had only
rebuilt all reverse dependencies with RC2.

In in discussion with libgeotiff upstream to revert the includes back to
#include "geo_config.h", see:

 http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/geotiff/2016-September/000816.html

In the mean time I've fixed librasterlite2 by appending the include path
via DEB_CPPFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND. I'll also do another round of rebuild to
check if other libgeotiff reverse dependencies are affected by the same
issue.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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