Re: flexfax: libtiff LZW issues esp in RH6.2

[Vasile GABURICI <gaburici@ss.pub.ro>]

   Ok, I'll make the rpm for RH6.2 when the libtiff 3.5.x patch is out.

On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Phil Watkinson wrote:

> Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com> wrote:
> > As noted several times earlier in this forum, there are serious issues
> > dealing with HylaFAX-4.1beta1-1 and the new versions of libtiff because of
> > the discontinued support of LZW compression.  This is especially
> noticeable
> > in RedHat 6.1 installations that use the updated libtiff package as well
> as
> > all RedHat 6.2 installations (because it has the updated libtiff package).
> 
> The conflict with versions 3.5.x of libtiff relate to a change in the
> internal
> interface of the library not with the lack of LZW compression.
> 
> Until the next release of HylaFAX, the recommendation must be to replace the
> new libtiff with the tried and trusted version 3.4.6
> 
> For users that need to have version 3.5.x (and I believe that there are bugs
> serious enough in v3.5.4 to recommend upgrading to 3.5.5) there will be a
> patch available on www.hylafax.org shortly.
> 
> >
> > As I'm aware, the only proven workaround is to "downgrade" the libtiff
> > version to 3.4-6 which is found on the RedHat 6.1 CD.  (I've done this,
> and
> > fax reception goes fine.)
> 
> If you are receiving multiple page faxes then you may be interested in John
> Williams patch to tiff2ps, available at www.hylafax.org/patches/
> 
> 
> >
> > If it truly is an LZW compression problem, then
> > use with the newest libtiff sources (3.5.5) which the compiler can patch
> > with libtiff's posted "LZW compression kit", should also be a valid
> > workaround.  I tried doing the latter tonight,..
> 
> Don't bother, it will not work.
> 
> Cheers,
> Phil Watkinson,
> Leicester, UK.
> 
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