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2000.04.18 18:00 "Re: SGI tiff 3.5.5 make install error .....", by Sam Leffler
> By the way, the install part of current makefiles seems to be
> SGI-specific (at least it relies on SGI-specific /sbin/install). It
> will probably not work on many architectures (it sure does not work on
> my Linux). It could pay off to switch libtiff to automake/autoconf,
> has anyone done anything in this direction already?
The makefiles et. al. were written as SGI-specific (since I was at SGI) and
then I provided "portability" to other platforms. A rewrite to use GNU
autoconf would be a good thing.
Sam