1<HTML> 2<HEAD> 3<TITLE> 4Changes in TIFF v3.4beta031 5</TITLE> 6</HEAD> 7 8<BODY> 9<FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Sans"> 10 11<BASEFONT SIZE=4> 12<B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B> 13<BASEFONT SIZE=3> 14 15<UL> 16<HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> 17<B>Current Version</B>: v3.4beta031<BR> 18<B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.4beta029.html>v3.4beta029</A><BR> 19<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> 20<HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> 21</UL> 22 23<P> 24This document describes the changes made to the software between the 25<I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above). 26If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this 27timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned. 28The following information is located here: 29<UL> 30<LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A> 31<LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A> 32<LI><A HREF="#man">Changes in the manual pages</A> 33</UL> 34 35<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> 36 37<A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A> 38 39<UL> 40<LI><B>configure</B> now captures significantly more information 41 in the <B>config.log</B> file and provides more information when 42 it is unable to setup a configuration 43<LI>support was added for building shared libraries on more systems: 44 AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and Linux. 45<LI>a new configuration parameter <TT>LIBCOPTS</TT> was added for 46 passing arguments to the C compiler to use when building only 47 the library; this is part of the enhanced support for building 48 shared libraries 49<LI>include files for optional packages that reside in <B>/usr/include</B> 50 are now handled correctly 51<LI>build trees may now be configured using either relative or absolute 52 pathnames to the source distribution 53<LI>several new configuration parameters were added, mainly for building 54 shared libraries: <TT>DIST_MAJOR</TT>, <TT>DIST_MINOR</TT>, 55 <TT>DIST_ALPHA</TT>, and <TT>DSOSUF_VERSION</TT> 56</UL> 57 58<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> 59 60<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A> 61 62<UL> 63<LI>the Deflate support has been revised: it requires version 0.99 of 64 the zlib software distribution, <B>the output format has changed and 65 is incompatible with previous versions of this library</B> (each 66 strip now includes a header read and written by the zlib library) 67<LI>the codec name printed by the TIFFPrintDirectory routine is now 68 taken from the codec table instead of from a builtin table; this means 69 that application-defined codecs are handled correctly 70<LI>a new symbol was added that contains the library version number; 71 this can be used to do a compile-time compatibility check of the 72 library version 73</UL> 74 75<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> 76 77<A NAME="man"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE MANUAL PAGES:</B></A> 78 79<UL> 80<LI>the creation and installation of manual pages was redone; it now 81 implements the documented ``configuration scheme'' 82</UL> 83 84<A HREF="index.html"><IMG SRC="images/back.gif"></A> TIFF home page.<BR> 85 86<HR> 87 88<ADDRESS> 89<A HREF="sam.html">Sam Leffler</A> / <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> 90Last updated $Date: 2016-09-25 20:05:45 $. 91</ADDRESS> 92 93</BODY> 94</HTML> 95
