Re: flexfax: libtiff 3.5 (Incoming faxes trashed)

[Dmitry Bely <dbely@mail.ru>]

Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com> writes:

> > Don't ever try [libtiff] 3.5 -- it will not work!
> 
> I assume this applies for *all* platforms, not just Red Hat Linux
> which was the context of the previous remark.

Yes. Due to the serious design flaw Hylafax depends on some internal
libtiff data structures, which were changed in version 3.5.

> Is this documented somewhere on the Hylafax website? I did a quick
> scan and didn't find it.

AFAIK no, but it was discussed in Hylafax developer's mailing list about a
month ago.

> Libtiff-3.4 is going to get harder and harder to find as time goes by.
> Does anyone have an idea how much work is involved in porting to the
> new lib? Or should forthcoming releases of hylafax include source for
> libtiff-3.4 (yuck)?

Possibly 4.1 beta 3 will be libtiff 3.5 compatible. Robert Colquhoun has
already made the patch. Unfortunately, Hylafax <-> libtiff interface has
not been fixed, so the similar problems very likely to happen in future.

Hope to hear from you soon,
Dmitry