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From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
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Subject: libtiff build/install braindamage
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I haven't upgraded libtiff on my machine (Solaris 2.6 + gcc) in two
years. At that time libtiff had new owners, and I assumed that libtiff
would be updated to configure and compile like 99.9% of open-source
software packages. I was wrong.  The Unix build/install environment is
even more undecipherable and broken now than it was two years ago.  
Instead of moving forward, it has moved backward.

After an hour of working to get libtiff configured (which should be a
mindless, trivial, task) I finally got it to build.  Now when I go to
install I find that there is no install program on my machine (GNU
install, BSD install, or SYSV install) that supports the -idb option
which is embedded in each and every Makefile.in.

What to do?

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us
http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen


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