1<HTML> 2<HEAD> 3<TITLE> 4Changes in TIFF v3.4beta031 5</TITLE> 6</HEAD> 7 8<BODY> 9 10<BASEFONT SIZE=4> 11<B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B> 12<BASEFONT SIZE=3> 13 14<UL> 15<HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> 16<B>Current Version</B>: v3.4beta031<BR> 17<B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.4beta029.html>v3.4beta029</A><BR> 18<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> 19<HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> 20</UL> 21 22<P> 23This document describes the changes made to the software between the 24<I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above). 25If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this 26timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned. 27The following information is located here: 28<UL> 29<LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A> 30<LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A> 31<LI><A HREF="#man">Changes in the manual pages</A> 32</UL> 33 34<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> 35 36<A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A> 37 38<UL> 39<LI><B>configure</B> now captures significantly more information 40 in the <B>config.log</B> file and provides more information when 41 it is unable to setup a configuration 42<LI>support was added for building shared libraries on more systems: 43 AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and Linux. 44<LI>a new configuration parameter <TT>LIBCOPTS</TT> was added for 45 passing arguments to the C compiler to use when building only 46 the library; this is part of the enhanced support for building 47 shared libraries 48<LI>include files for optional packages that reside in <B>/usr/include</B> 49 are now handled correctly 50<LI>build trees may now be configured using either relative or absolute 51 pathnames to the source distribution 52<LI>several new configuration parameters were added, mainly for building 53 shared libraries: <TT>DIST_MAJOR</TT>, <TT>DIST_MINOR</TT>, 54 <TT>DIST_ALPHA</TT>, and <TT>DSOSUF_VERSION</TT> 55</UL> 56 57<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> 58 59<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A> 60 61<UL> 62<LI>the Deflate support has been revised: it requires version 0.99 of 63 the zlib software distribution, <B>the output format has changed and 64 is incompatible with previous versions of this library</B> (each 65 strip now includes a header read and written by the zlib library) 66<LI>the codec name printed by the TIFFPrintDirectory routine is now 67 taken from the codec table instead of from a builtin table; this means 68 that application-defined codecs are handled correctly 69<LI>a new symbol was added that contains the library version number; 70 this can be used to do a compile-time compatibility check of the 71 library version 72</UL> 73 74<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> 75 76<A NAME="man"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE MANUAL PAGES:</B></A> 77 78<UL> 79<LI>the creation and installation of manual pages was redone; it now 80 implements the documented ``configuration scheme'' 81</UL> 82 83<A HREF="index.html"><IMG SRC="images/back.gif"></A> TIFF home page.<BR> 84 85<HR> 86 87<ADDRESS> 88<A HREF="sam.html">Sam Leffler</A> / <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> 89Last updated $Date: 1999-07-27 21:50:27 $. 90</ADDRESS> 91 92</BODY> 93</HTML> 94
