Re: flexfax: Re: Hylafax and RedHat 6.2 ?

[Edward King <edk@cendatsys.com>]

I had a problem with libtiff 3.5.x and hylafax 4.1beta2 -- it would freeze trying
to receive the fax (if I remember correctly).  There was a posting in this
mailing list.

After we changed to libtiff 3.4.x everything was fine -- you should be able to
find the rpm for the older library on internet (we used altavista to locate one).

If you look through the archive searching on libtiff 3.5 you should turn up some
information on it -- seems like it won't work (at least 3.4 fixed our problems)

- Edward King


PS -- we did modify the script to force 3.5 thinking they were fools to require
an older version... turns out to be our mistake....

David Vogler wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Lee Howard wrote:
>
> > RedHat 6.2 comes default with libtiff 3.5.x.  Currently the only available
> > HylaFAX RPMs are not compatible with libtiff 3.5.x and you must downgrade
> > your libtiff version to 3.4.x which is available by download from RedHat or
> > on the RH 6.1 CD.
>
> HylaFAX is compatible with libtiff 3.5.x. The SPEC says libtiff >= 3.4,
> and it works fine for me. But take a look at the configure script, which
> is somehow not correct as I think:
>
>    2857 #
>    2858 # Verify library is compatible.
>    2859 #
>    2860 cat>t.c<<EOF
>    2861 #include "tiffio.h"
>    2862 main()
>    2863 {
>    2864     if (TIFFLIB_VERSION < 19960307) {     /* check include file
> version */
>    2865         printf("old include files: version %u\n",
> TIFFLIB_VERSION);
>    2866         exit(-1);
>    2867     }
>    2868     if (strncmp(TIFFGetVersion(), "LIBTIFF, Version 3.4", 20) !=
> 0) {
>    2869         printf("old library: version %s\n", TIFFGetVersion());
>    2870         exit(-1);
>    2871     } else
>    2872         exit(0);
>    2873 }
>    2874 EOF
>
> Line 2868 can be changed to:
>
>    2868     if (strncmp(TIFFGetVersion(), "LIBTIFF, Version 3.5", 20) !=
> 0) {
>
> So insert a
>
> perl -pi -e "s/LIBTIFF, Version 3.4/LIBTIFF, Version 3.5/g" configure
>
> around line 173 in the hylafax.spec because changing the sources - and I
> consider 'configure' - to be part of the source is not nice.
>
> regards,
>
> --
> David Vogler <david@lisas.de>
> http://lisas.de/~david/