Message-ID: 05f701bfa960$0167fd10$24a6d4d1@melange
To: "Jan Prikryl" <prikryl@cg.tuwien.ac.at>, <tiff@olympiakos.com>
Subject: Re: SGI tiff 3.5.5 make install error .....
From: "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:00:39 -0700
Cc: "M. L. Welles" <mike@onshore.com>
Organization: Errno Consulting
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The makefiles et. al. were written as SGI-specific (since I was at SGI) and
then I provided "portability" to other platforms.  A rewrite to use GNU
autoconf would be a good thing.

    Sam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Prikryl" <prikryl@cg.tuwien.ac.at>
To: <tiff@olympiakos.com>
Cc: "M. L. Welles" <mike@onshore.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: SGI tiff 3.5.5 make install error .....


> Quoting M. L. Welles (mike@onshore.com):
>
> > If someone does come up with a fix for this, I'd like to apply it to the
> > CVS source quickly.
> >
> > Otherwise, if anyone could donate shell access to an SGI Irix box that
> > we could use for testing builds (or at least quickly fixing this
> > problem),  we'd greatly appreciate it.
>
> Here is the patch ... tested on Irix 6.5. Shall be appiled in the root
> directory of libtiff with
>
> patch -p0 < tiff-makefile.patch
>
> By the way, the install part of current makefiles seems to be
> SGI-specific (at least it relies on SGI-specific /sbin/install). It
> will probably not work on many architectures (it sure does not work on
> my Linux). It could pay off to switch libtiff to automake/autoconf,
> has anyone done anything in this direction already?
>
> -- jp
>
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>                Jan Prikryl <prikryl@cg.tuwien.ac.at>
>          http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/staff/JanPrikryl.html
>          Institute of Computer Graphics and Visualisation
>              Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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