Request for changes-111: SuperBuild dependencies additions for GDAL

[Request for Changes - 111] SuperBuild dependencies additions for GDAL

Status

• Author: Guillaume
• Submitted on 01.09.2017
• Proposed target release : 6.2
• Adopted : +2 from Guillaume, Victor
• Merged : 7d6a4af72e3166c06cf9c974d277c04d32c32b93

Summary

This RFC improves the list of GDAL drivers in SuperBuild, in particular with HDF support.

Rationale

Some image formats were not supported in GDAL built from SuperBuild, which is then packaged and released.

Implementation details

SuperBuild

M       SuperBuild/CMake/External_gdal.cmake
A       SuperBuild/CMake/External_hdf4.cmake
A       SuperBuild/CMake/External_hdf5.cmake
M       SuperBuild/CMake/External_jpeg.cmake
A       SuperBuild/CMake/External_netcdf.cmake
M       SuperBuild/CMake/External_openjpeg.cmake
M       SuperBuild/CMakeLists.txt
A       SuperBuild/patches/GDAL/gdal-4-fixhdf5-win.diff
A       SuperBuild/patches/GDAL/gdal-5-fixOpenJPEG22_rev39821-all.diff
M       SuperBuild/patches/GDAL/gdal-fix-rpath-for-macx.diff
M       SuperBuild/patches/GDAL/nmake_gdal_extra.opt.in
A       SuperBuild/patches/HDF4/hdf4-1-alternative-all.diff
D       SuperBuild/patches/OPENJPEG/openjpeg-1-pr786-all.diff
M       SuperBuild/patches/OPENJPEG/openjpeg-2-fixes-macx.diff

In a nutshell:

• Added support of HDF4
• Added support of HDF5
• Added support of NetCDF (built with HDF 4 & 5 support)
• Enable hdf4, hdf5 and netcdf drivers in GDAL
• Upgrade OpenJPEG to 2.2 (lots of performance improvements)