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Changes in TIFF v3.4beta031
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<B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B>
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<B>Current Version</B>: v3.4beta031<BR>
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<B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.4beta029.html>v3.4beta029</A><BR>
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<B>Master FTP Site</B>: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff">ftp.sgi.com (192.48.153.1), directory graphics/tiff</A><BR>
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This document describes the changes made to the software between the
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<I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above).
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If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
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timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.
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The following information is located here:
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<LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A>
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<LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A>
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<LI><A HREF="#man">Changes in the manual pages</A>
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<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right>
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<A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
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<LI><B>configure</B> now captures significantly more information
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   in the <B>config.log</B> file and provides more information when
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   it is unable to setup a configuration
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<LI>support was added for building shared libraries on more systems:
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   AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and Linux.
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<LI>a new configuration parameter <TT>LIBCOPTS</TT> was added for
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   passing arguments to the C compiler to use when building only
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   the library; this is part of the enhanced support for building
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   shared libraries
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<LI>include files for optional packages that reside in <B>/usr/include</B>
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   are now handled correctly
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<LI>build trees may now be configured using either relative or absolute
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   pathnames to the source distribution
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<LI>several new configuration parameters were added, mainly for building
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   shared libraries: <TT>DIST_MAJOR</TT>, <TT>DIST_MINOR</TT>, 
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   <TT>DIST_ALPHA</TT>, and <TT>DSOSUF_VERSION</TT>
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<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right>
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<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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<LI>the Deflate support has been revised: it requires version 0.99 of
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   the zlib software distribution, <B>the output format has changed and
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   is incompatible with previous versions of this library</B> (each
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   strip now includes a header read and written by the zlib library)
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<LI>the codec name printed by the TIFFPrintDirectory routine is now
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   taken from the codec table instead of from a builtin table; this means
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   that application-defined codecs are handled correctly
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<LI>a new symbol was added that contains the library version number;
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   this can be used to do a compile-time compatibility check of the
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   library version
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<A NAME="man"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE MANUAL PAGES:</B></A>
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<LI>the creation and installation of manual pages was redone; it now
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    implements the documented ``configuration scheme''
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<A HREF="index.html"><IMG SRC="images/back.gif"></A> TIFF home page.<BR>
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<A HREF="sam.html">Sam Leffler</A> / <A HREF="mailto:sam@engr.sgi.com">sam@engr.sgi.com</A>
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Last updated $Date: 1999/08/09 20:21:21 $.
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