10ef31e1fSMike Welles<HTML> 20ef31e1fSMike Welles<HEAD> 30ef31e1fSMike Welles<TITLE> 40ef31e1fSMike WellesChanges in TIFF v3.4beta031 50ef31e1fSMike Welles</TITLE> 60ef31e1fSMike Welles</HEAD> 70ef31e1fSMike Welles 80ef31e1fSMike Welles<BODY> 9dcb05556SMike Welles<FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Sans"> 100ef31e1fSMike Welles 110ef31e1fSMike Welles<BASEFONT SIZE=4> 120ef31e1fSMike Welles<B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B> 130ef31e1fSMike Welles<BASEFONT SIZE=3> 140ef31e1fSMike Welles 150ef31e1fSMike Welles<UL> 160ef31e1fSMike Welles<HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> 170ef31e1fSMike Welles<B>Current Version</B>: v3.4beta031<BR> 180ef31e1fSMike Welles<B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.4beta029.html>v3.4beta029</A><BR> 190ef31e1fSMike Welles<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> 200ef31e1fSMike Welles<HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> 210ef31e1fSMike Welles</UL> 220ef31e1fSMike Welles 230ef31e1fSMike Welles<P> 240ef31e1fSMike WellesThis document describes the changes made to the software between the 250ef31e1fSMike Welles<I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above). 260ef31e1fSMike WellesIf you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this 270ef31e1fSMike Wellestimeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned. 280ef31e1fSMike WellesThe following information is located here: 290ef31e1fSMike Welles<UL> 300ef31e1fSMike Welles<LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A> 310ef31e1fSMike Welles<LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A> 320ef31e1fSMike Welles<LI><A HREF="#man">Changes in the manual pages</A> 330ef31e1fSMike Welles</UL> 340ef31e1fSMike Welles 350ef31e1fSMike Welles<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> 360ef31e1fSMike Welles 370ef31e1fSMike Welles<A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A> 380ef31e1fSMike Welles 390ef31e1fSMike Welles<UL> 400ef31e1fSMike Welles<LI><B>configure</B> now captures significantly more information 410ef31e1fSMike Welles in the <B>config.log</B> file and provides more information when 420ef31e1fSMike Welles it is unable to setup a configuration 430ef31e1fSMike Welles<LI>support was added for building shared libraries on more systems: 440ef31e1fSMike Welles AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and Linux. 450ef31e1fSMike Welles<LI>a new configuration parameter <TT>LIBCOPTS</TT> was added for 460ef31e1fSMike Welles passing arguments to the C compiler to use when building only 470ef31e1fSMike Welles the library; this is part of the enhanced support for building 480ef31e1fSMike Welles shared libraries 490ef31e1fSMike Welles<LI>include files for optional packages that reside in <B>/usr/include</B> 500ef31e1fSMike Welles are now handled correctly 510ef31e1fSMike Welles<LI>build trees may now be configured using either relative or absolute 520ef31e1fSMike Welles pathnames to the source distribution 530ef31e1fSMike Welles<LI>several new configuration parameters were added, mainly for building 540ef31e1fSMike Welles shared libraries: <TT>DIST_MAJOR</TT>, <TT>DIST_MINOR</TT>, 550ef31e1fSMike Welles <TT>DIST_ALPHA</TT>, and <TT>DSOSUF_VERSION</TT> 560ef31e1fSMike Welles</UL> 570ef31e1fSMike Welles 580ef31e1fSMike Welles<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> 590ef31e1fSMike Welles 600ef31e1fSMike Welles<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A> 610ef31e1fSMike Welles 620ef31e1fSMike Welles<UL> 630ef31e1fSMike Welles<LI>the Deflate support has been revised: it requires version 0.99 of 640ef31e1fSMike Welles the zlib software distribution, <B>the output format has changed and 650ef31e1fSMike Welles is incompatible with previous versions of this library</B> (each 660ef31e1fSMike Welles strip now includes a header read and written by the zlib library) 670ef31e1fSMike Welles<LI>the codec name printed by the TIFFPrintDirectory routine is now 680ef31e1fSMike Welles taken from the codec table instead of from a builtin table; this means 690ef31e1fSMike Welles that application-defined codecs are handled correctly 700ef31e1fSMike Welles<LI>a new symbol was added that contains the library version number; 710ef31e1fSMike Welles this can be used to do a compile-time compatibility check of the 720ef31e1fSMike Welles library version 730ef31e1fSMike Welles</UL> 740ef31e1fSMike Welles 750ef31e1fSMike Welles<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> 760ef31e1fSMike Welles 770ef31e1fSMike Welles<A NAME="man"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE MANUAL PAGES:</B></A> 780ef31e1fSMike Welles 790ef31e1fSMike Welles<UL> 800ef31e1fSMike Welles<LI>the creation and installation of manual pages was redone; it now 810ef31e1fSMike Welles implements the documented ``configuration scheme'' 820ef31e1fSMike Welles</UL> 830ef31e1fSMike Welles 840ef31e1fSMike Welles<A HREF="index.html"><IMG SRC="images/back.gif"></A> TIFF home page.<BR> 850ef31e1fSMike Welles 860ef31e1fSMike Welles<HR> 870ef31e1fSMike Welles 880ef31e1fSMike Welles<ADDRESS> 890ef31e1fSMike Welles<A HREF="sam.html">Sam Leffler</A> / <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> 90*d4dd6cccSBob FriesenhahnLast updated $Date: 2016-09-25 20:05:45 $. 910ef31e1fSMike Welles</ADDRESS> 920ef31e1fSMike Welles 930ef31e1fSMike Welles</BODY> 940ef31e1fSMike Welles</HTML> 95
