[svlug] missing tiff.h & tiffio.h -- Fixed

[Skip Evans]

Hey all,

With your help I got this fixed. I did end up 
going back to the currently installed older 5.x 
version for the reasons I explained, if belatedly, 
and found the proper libtiff-devel package through 
rpmfind.net.

First I installed libtiff-devel and checked for 
the presence if tiff.h and tiffio.h, which were 
the files that had been missing, and then the 
build went smoothly and now the application works 
as it should.

Thanks a bunch for your help. At least one client 
in the world is much happier tonight because of it.

Skip

Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Skip Evans (skip at bigskypenguin.com):
> 
> 
>>The 6.2 package as installed would not process 
>>jpeg files, and after a lot of Googling I read 
>>that jpeg support had been dropped by the default 
>>install, and to get it back it was recommended to 
>>go back to a 5.x ImageMagick install.
>>
>>I tried to locate an FC4 rpm, but could not, so I 
>>decided to take a shot at building it from source, 
>>which did work for jpeg, but not for tiff's.
> 
> 
> Aha.  OK, thanks.
> 
> Something like rpmsearch _can_ sometimes be your friend in these 
> situations, in giving you a way to (despite the cited obstacle) 
> leverage your distro's package system.  In this case, per rpmsearch, 
> an ImageMagick-5.5.6-5 package existed for FC1, which means you should
> be able to find the .src.rpm file without too much trouble.
> 
> The package maintainer's customisations to make the package work well 
> on Fedora, any Fedora, will tend to make your life simpler in many ways,
> including probably making the build process easier.  Also, this way, the
> package will exist in your package database, which is always preferable.
> 
> And if that just doesn't work, you can still resort to upstream tarballs
> the 1992 way.  ;->
> 
> 
> And, by the way, have you considered getting the src.rpm of the 6.2.2
> package for FC4, and seeing if it might just be a simple compile-time 
> option?  (And yes, you'd still need the libtiff-devel contents, but 
> /usr/src/rpmbuild or whatever would _tell_ you what you need!)
> 
> 
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