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  12 <B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B>
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  17 <B>Current Version</B>: v3.4beta031<BR>
  18 <B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.4beta029.html>v3.4beta029</A><BR>
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  24 This document describes the changes made to the software between the
  25 <I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above).
  26 If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
  27 timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.
  28 The following information is located here:
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  30 <LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A>
  31 <LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A>
  32 <LI><A HREF="#man">Changes in the manual pages</A>
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  37 <A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
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  40 <LI><B>configure</B> now captures significantly more information
  41    in the <B>config.log</B> file and provides more information when
  42    it is unable to setup a configuration
  43 <LI>support was added for building shared libraries on more systems:
  44    AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and Linux.
  45 <LI>a new configuration parameter <TT>LIBCOPTS</TT> was added for
  46    passing arguments to the C compiler to use when building only
  47    the library; this is part of the enhanced support for building
  48    shared libraries
  49 <LI>include files for optional packages that reside in <B>/usr/include</B>
  50    are now handled correctly
  51 <LI>build trees may now be configured using either relative or absolute
  52    pathnames to the source distribution
  53 <LI>several new configuration parameters were added, mainly for building
  54    shared libraries: <TT>DIST_MAJOR</TT>, <TT>DIST_MINOR</TT>,
  55    <TT>DIST_ALPHA</TT>, and <TT>DSOSUF_VERSION</TT>
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  60 <A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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  63 <LI>the Deflate support has been revised: it requires version 0.99 of
  64    the zlib software distribution, <B>the output format has changed and
  65    is incompatible with previous versions of this library</B> (each
  66    strip now includes a header read and written by the zlib library)
  67 <LI>the codec name printed by the TIFFPrintDirectory routine is now
  68    taken from the codec table instead of from a builtin table; this means
  69    that application-defined codecs are handled correctly
  70 <LI>a new symbol was added that contains the library version number;
  71    this can be used to do a compile-time compatibility check of the
  72    library version
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  77 <A NAME="man"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE MANUAL PAGES:</B></A>
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  80 <LI>the creation and installation of manual pages was redone; it now
  81     implements the documented ``configuration scheme''
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  89 <A HREF="sam.html">Sam Leffler</A> / <A HREF="mailto:sam@engr.sgi.com">sam@engr.sgi.com</A>
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