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In my seeking a managable way to build libtiff, on the Asterfax forum I
got the following recommendation (from another fax user that made the
move to libtiff 3.8.2):<br><br>
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Hi Robert, <br>
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I have compiled libtiff-3.8.2 from the source package for my Fedora Core
4 machine. <br>
I am not sure about CentOS, but I think you can try to do the same with
rpmbuild and the source package for Fedora: <br>
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- Install the rpmbuild tools in CentOS; <br>
- Download the source package for Fedora:
<a href="http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/atrpms/src/fc6-i386/redhat/SRPMS.updates/libtiff-3.8.2-2.src.rpm">
http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/atrpms/src/fc6-i386/redhat/SRPMS.updates/libtiff-3.8.2-2.src.rpm</a>
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- Install the source package as a non-root user: <br>
rpm -ivh libtiff-3.8.2-2.src.rpm <br>
- Go to your rpmbuild folder: cd ~/rpmbuild <br>
- Rebuild the package: rpmbuild -ba SPECS/libtiff.spec <br>
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If everything goes well, you will find a brand new set of RPM packages in
the ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/ (replace i386 for your actual architecture if
you're not building on i386), which you can install with the upgrade RPM
command: rpm -Uvh libtiff-3.8.2*.rpm <br><br>
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Does this 'look right' for Centos? If not what do I
change?<br><br>
And how do I get the rpmbuild tools? yum install
rpmbuild ??<br><br>
Finally, once I have built 3.8.2, how would I migrate it to other
systems?<br><br>
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