Gtiff format driver projection saving bug

[soule@…]

In the file gdal-1.1.8/frmts/gtiff/geotiff.cpp, lines 1536-1538 in the function
WriteGeoTIFFInfo, the lines:
    if( adfGeoTransform[0] != 0.0 && adfGeoTransform[1] != 1.0
        && adfGeoTransform[2] != 0.0 && adfGeoTransform[3] != 0.0
        && adfGeoTransform[4] != 0.0 && ABS(adfGeoTransform[5]) != 1.0 )
should be:
    if( adfGeoTransform[0] != 0.0 || adfGeoTransform[1] != 1.0
        || adfGeoTransform[2] != 0.0 || adfGeoTransform[3] != 0.0
        || adfGeoTransform[4] != 0.0 || ABS(adfGeoTransform[5]) != 1.0 )
The effect of this bug is that the geotransform and projection are not saved
unless all six geotransform numbers are different from the default.  It could
very well be the case that this function has other logic problems too, but the
change above fixed the problem I was having.

[warmerdam]

This is a known problem, and fixed shortly after the 1.1.8 release in CVS. 
Sorry for the inconvenience digging into this.  

PS. I posted a note to the gdal-dev list about this bug a couple of months ago
since it was fairly serious, though it doesn't affect gdal_translate which uses
the CreateCopy() method.