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On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, Roger Leigh wrote:

> Adds documentation to build.html for building with CMake.
>
> - Adds cmake section, copied from the autoconf/UNIX build section
>
> May need a bit of proofreading; it's the first plain HTML I've edited since 
> 1999!

The patch is applied to CVS 'as is'.  Please verify.

> It also adds a couple of tweaks:
>
> - adds ld-version-script option to cmake build to match autoconf
>  (note: defaults to on to be ABI-compatible by default with all Linux 
> distribution builds; worth also switching the autoconf default to ON to match 
> the distributions as well since it's disabled if unavailable?) Otherwise 
> builds aginst custom libtiff builds won't run on most distributions due to 
> symbol mismatches (and vice-versa).

With the many tens of Linux distributions existing which are managed 
by different people, it is difficult or impossible to qualify "all 
Linux distribution builds".

Changing the autoconf default might not be reasonable since it may 
cause issues for those who built libtiff without the option.

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