gdal, proj4, Re: libgeotiff-1.2.1-2 (sqlite, libjasper, python, libtool)

[Norman Vine]

Reini Urban writes:
> 
> norman:
> does libgdal really needs libpython at all?
> does it have an embedded python interpreter?
> I only saw the python extension, which builds its seperate python gdal 
> modules. but nothing which refers to python within the library itself.
> I want to remove -lpython2.3 from LIBS

You can safely remove libpython from LIBS
libpython is only needed for the Python extension

> >>   LIBTIFF support:           external

you shoul duse the internal tiff library as it is 'gauranteed' to
be in sync with the internal libgeotiff  i.e.

configure --with-libtiff=internal --with-geotiff=internal

HTH

Norman