[Radiance-dev] libtiff in Linux radiance

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Hi Greg,

one main problem I still see for people who'd like to use the system's libtiff
are the tiff headers shipped in src/common:

0 bzed at think:~/workspace/debian/recluse/pkg-radiance/src/common(upstream-cvs)$
ll tiff*
-r--r--r-- 1 bzed bzed 30663 2008-08-28 00:57 tiff.h
-r--r--r-- 1 bzed bzed 19161 2008-08-28 00:57 tiffio.h
-r--r--r-- 1 bzed bzed   410 2008-08-28 00:57 tiffvers.h
0 bzed at think:~/workspace/debian/recluse/pkg-radiance/src/common(upstream-cvs)$

I think it makes more than sense to use the tiff headers shipped with the
distribution's libtiff package instead of the old versions included in the
Radiance source. Could they be dropped from src/common and only be copied in
there in case the libtiff from the Radiance source is being built?
The other option would be to change the Makefile which does the libtiff build
job to let libtiff install the tiff headers into a special subdirectory, so
this directory could be added to the CPPFLAGS with -I per default, but it
would be only used if there's something in it.

Cheers,

Bernd

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