Changes in TIFF v3.4beta031¶
Current Version |
v3.4beta031 (no release tag) |
Previous Version |
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This document describes the changes made to the software between the previous and current versions (see above). If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned. The following information is located here:
Software configuration changes¶
configure now captures significantly more information in the
config.logfile and provides more information when it is unable to setup a configurationsupport was added for building shared libraries on more systems: AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and Linux.
a new configuration parameter
LIBCOPTSwas added for passing arguments to the C compiler to use when building only the library; this is part of the enhanced support for building shared librariesinclude files for optional packages that reside in
/usr/includeare now handled correctlybuild trees may now be configured using either relative or absolute pathnames to the source distribution
several new configuration parameters were added, mainly for building shared libraries:
DIST_MAJOR,DIST_MINOR,DIST_ALPHA, andDSOSUF_VERSION
Library changes¶
the Deflate support has been revised: it requires version 0.99 of the zlib software distribution, the output format has changed and is incompatible with previous versions of this library (each strip now includes a header read and written by the zlib library)
the codec name printed by the
TIFFPrintDirectory()routine is now taken from the codec table instead of from a builtin table; this means that application-defined codecs are handled correctlya new symbol was added that contains the library version number; this can be used to do a compile-time compatibility check of the library version
Documentation changes¶
the creation and installation of manual pages was redone; it now implements the documented "configuration scheme"