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  5. Changes in TIFF v3.4beta031
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  11. <B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B>
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  15. <B>Current Version</B>: v3.4beta031<BR>
  16. <B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.4beta029.html>v3.4beta029</A><BR>
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  21. This document describes the changes made to the software between the
  22. <I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above).
  23. If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
  24. timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.
  25. The following information is located here:
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  27. <LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A>
  28. <LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A>
  29. <LI><A HREF="#man">Changes in the manual pages</A>
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  32. <A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
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  34. <LI><B>configure</B> now captures significantly more information
  35. in the <B>config.log</B> file and provides more information when
  36. it is unable to setup a configuration
  37. <LI>support was added for building shared libraries on more systems:
  38. AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and Linux.
  39. <LI>a new configuration parameter <TT>LIBCOPTS</TT> was added for
  40. passing arguments to the C compiler to use when building only
  41. the library; this is part of the enhanced support for building
  42. shared libraries
  43. <LI>include files for optional packages that reside in <B>/usr/include</B>
  44. are now handled correctly
  45. <LI>build trees may now be configured using either relative or absolute
  46. pathnames to the source distribution
  47. <LI>several new configuration parameters were added, mainly for building
  48. shared libraries: <TT>DIST_MAJOR</TT>, <TT>DIST_MINOR</TT>,
  49. <TT>DIST_ALPHA</TT>, and <TT>DSOSUF_VERSION</TT>
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  52. <A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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  54. <LI>the Deflate support has been revised: it requires version 0.99 of
  55. the zlib software distribution, <B>the output format has changed and
  56. is incompatible with previous versions of this library</B> (each
  57. strip now includes a header read and written by the zlib library)
  58. <LI>the codec name printed by the TIFFPrintDirectory routine is now
  59. taken from the codec table instead of from a builtin table; this means
  60. that application-defined codecs are handled correctly
  61. <LI>a new symbol was added that contains the library version number;
  62. this can be used to do a compile-time compatibility check of the
  63. library version
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  66. <A NAME="man"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE MANUAL PAGES:</B></A>
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  68. <LI>the creation and installation of manual pages was redone; it now
  69. implements the documented ``configuration scheme''
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  74. <A HREF="sam.html">Sam Leffler</A> / <A HREF="mailto:sam@engr.sgi.com">sam@engr.sgi.com</A>
  75. Last updated $Date: 2016-09-25 20:05:45 $.
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