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Subject: Re: libtiff: bugreport (many bugs)
From: chanson@totalint.com (Chris Hanson)
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> Hallo tiff developers,
> 
> Testing libtiff I have found there many bugs and problems:
>
> configure:
> Configuring sed script is buggy. It works for old GNU sed, but not,
> for example, for GNU sed 3.02.80. Replacing of empty string is bad idea.
> fix: filter configure by following sed script :-)
> s:/@:s;@:;s:/s;;:;:

The configure script also does not include support for Apple's Mac OS X
Server.  (I've pointed this out before; see the list archives.)

Manually specifying --host=powerpc-apple-rhapsody5.5 to configure and
then hacking the generated Makefiles creates working tools and
libraries, though.

>    CAN ANYBODY HELP WITH THIS PROBLEM? I have tried contact Adobe
>    developer support to obtain detailed specification of G4 compression
>    but without result. Peter Deutsch, author of ghostscript,
>    used different code, so testing on gs will not help.

The Group 4 Fax compression standard is available as a PDF that can be
downloaded from the ITU for a nominal fee.  It's at <
http://www.itu.int//itudoc/itu-t/rec/t/index.html>.

  -- Chris
