• The FAX image handling in libtiff 3.6.1 is broken, so this version of libtiff will not function correctly with spandsp (or HylaFAX, or any other FAX software, I guess).
• It seems possible for the libtiff library to fall over when handling some bad TIFF files. If spandsp is being used with Asterisk, this might bring the entire PBX down. So far only one person has reported this. Recent security update patches for libtiff 3.5.7, 3.6.0, and 3.6.1 hopefully correct this problem.

Robert Moskowitz wrote:

At 02:35 PM 5/26/2006, Dan Trainor wrote:

Robert Moskowitz wrote:

Via google:  libtiff 3.8.2
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2839214/com/libtiff-3.8.2-2.x86_64.rpm.html
This got me to a page all about libtiff 3.8.2 for 'Fedora other'  and a link
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=3&search=libtiff&srodzaj=3
for other distributions.
So which do I take?
? http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2845370/com/libtiff-3.8.2-2.i386.rpm.html
please, I really want to get this going!

Hi -

I do not believe that libtiff 3.8.2 is available for CentOS - only 3.6.1-8 and 3.6.1-10.

Remember, the goal of the CentOS project is not to provide bleeding edge software, so you may well get stuck with a slightly older version.

So the Asterisk AT Home gang that have built on Centos may have a real problem with spandsp.

Hi, RObert -

Well, no - not necessarily.  Remember, we try to keep as close to RHEL as we can.  In fact, I don't know of anything that's actually modified to be special for CentOS, aside from the usual.

The *@home guys probably built their own RPMs or installs for their setup.  Even though it's based on CentOS, doesn't mean it has to BE CentOS - it could be a heavily modified version, including additional libraries which are mroe bleeding edge, e.g. libtiff-3.8.2.

Hope that clears some thigns up for you.

Thanks
-dant
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