[CentOS] libtiff with bigtiff support

Thu Feb 21 17:40:49 UTC 2013
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

On 21/02/13 16:39, Weiner, Michael wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if the current libtiff-3.9.4-9.el6_3.x86_64 RPM has
> bigtiff support built into it? I need this for tiling rather large
> images for the Virtual Microscope project I am working on, and I am
> having issues building the 4x versions that only seem to be available
> for F18.
>
>
>
> Thank you for any information you can provide
>
> Michael Weiner
>

Can you open tiff files larger than 4GB? If not, then you have your answer.

Looking at the changelog of the current libtiff I don't see any mention 
of bigtiff so I would assume it has not been backported. I only see 
mention of security/bug fixes.