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Dariusz Piatkowski:
Folks,

Just a quick FYI, although those who need this functionality have probably already instituted this.

The latest drop of libtiff & tools (4.6) is missing the vast majority of tiff tools. This is a known issue (as has been pointed out on our forum here already) and has been remedied with the 4.7 release (https://libtiff.gitlab.io/libtiff/releases/v4.7.0.html), which we do not have available to us yet.

Sooo...in case you are like me and need to use those tiff tools here is what you can do:

1) before upgrading your <4.6 libtiff stuff
- copy the tiff tools you need from \usr\bin to \usr\local\bin
- optionally copy the tiff libs from \usr\lib to \usr\local\lib (this is not really needed b/c the 4.6 update will force install libtiff-legacy-5 package and that has all the DLLs you need (two actually)
- copy the tiff MAN pages from \usr\share\man\man1 to \usr\local\share\man\man1

2) upgrade your <4.6 release of libtiff & tools

3) remove the doubled up EXE and MAN pages from the \usr\local\... locations

This approach has allowed me to continue using the available 4.0.9 libtool EXEs which apps like PDFMergeNX require.

BTW: The stipulation here is of course that \usr\local\... is present in your CONFIG.SYS in the appropriate LIBPATH & SET PATH lines.

Silvan Scherrer:
no need the hassle. I might create a new rpm within some days

TeLLie:
Hi all,

Tiff 4.7.0 is done and is in the rpm exp

Thankz to Silvan for this newer build :)

Greetz Tellie

Dariusz Piatkowski:
OK, that's excellent...thank You Silvan!

Dariusz Piatkowski:
Hi Silvan!


--- Quote from: Silvan Scherrer on April 15, 2025, 05:28:54 pm ---no need the hassle. I might create a new rpm within some days

--- End quote ---

Installed the 4.7.0 release here, a few days into this and things seems to be working quite fine.

So for what it's worth, is this post here the most appropriate/quasi-official way to provide you with that feedback in order to move the RPM from '-EXP' to '-REL'??? (seeing as I haven't seen anyone else complain of negative results)

I've often wandered who/how/when this whole thing works...

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