[Radiance-dev] libtiff in Linux radiance

[R Fritz]

One of the things I tried in my experimental Radiance build scripts  
was testing for the presence of a system libtiff with logluv support  
and using it.  Is that something that's planned for 4.0?

Randolph

On Dec 15, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Axel Jacobs wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> (Greg:)
>> As for the Linux README regarding libtiff, I'm all for it, but not
>> confident enough to write it myself, having never done it.  I also
>> don't understand packages under Linux or Ubuntu, so I'd really prefer
>> that someone else submit a README to put into the distribution.  I'd
>> be happy to proofread it and include it.  I don't think there are any
>> serious problems remaining between the packaged libtiff and the one I
>> distribute, but again I don't have any Linux experience to draw on.
>
> (Bernd:)
>> I could write that, but first I'll have to update my patches to the  
>> latest
>> HEAD and see what needs to be done at the moment. Last thing I  
>> remember is
>> that I talked with Greg about some tiff related patches from me,  
>> and I think
>> they're applied in his tree. Didn't catch up with that as I'm  
>> spending more
>> spare time on Lenny related stuff at the moment.
>
> Brilliant! You guys rock!
>
> Bernd, I know I half dumped you into this by even begging the
> question. Thanks a lot for picking this up! I promise to put on my
> Sherlock Holmes hat and give some good-quality dummy's level feedback.
>
> (Thomas:)
>> Francesco has already written down what's necessary to
>> compile on OS X:
>> http://www.bozzograo.net/radiancewiki/doku.php
>> I haven't compiled Radiance myself in ages because
>> Greg always provides the binaries (probably first of all):
>> http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/dist/rad3R9_macosx.tar.gz
>> There are minor issues on OS X but they have been
>> covered a lot and if your student couldn't get it
>> to work he/she shouldn't use the source distribution
>> in the first place or search the in list archives
>> for the same problem.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out. I was aware of Francesco's site, but did
> not know the install instructions (sorry, Francesco).
> Greg, do you think this would justify a link to Francesco's page on
> the two download pages (radsite and radiance-online)? All the coding
> gurus seem to run MacOS now. However, many Mac people are still of the
> more artistic type. So even something like
> '/your/preferred/path/to/the/binaries' might be too much. So where DO
> I stick them? Come on... we all started off small.
>
> Oh, and yes, I'm deliberately being a bit stubborn here.
>
> Many thanks for you efforts and feedback
>
> Cheerioh
>
> Axel
>
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