In the Mapnik library we open a GDALDataset per thread, for each feature query, but have been seeing crashes when rendering large geotiffs.
I've assumed that GDALDataset was fairly threadsafe in recent revisions as per (http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FAQMiscellaneous#IstheGDALlibrarythread-safe), but recently learned that you must force --with-threads during configure to get this working. Once I rebuilt gdal --with-threads all my troubles went away. Are there caveats or other reasons not to pass --with-threads during the configure stage. E.g. should is not be made default some time in the future? Thanks, Dane _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
