2000.01.25 13:29 "libtiff: bugreport (many bugs)", by Stanislav Brabec

2000.01.25 13:29 "libtiff: bugreport (many bugs)", by Stanislav Brabec

Hallo tiff developers,

Testing libtiff I have found there many bugs and problems:

configure:

Configuring sed script is buggy. It works for old GNU sed, but not, for example, for GNU sed 3.02.80. Replacing of empty string is bad idea. fix: filter configure by following sed script :-)

s:/@:s;@:;s:/s;;:;:

tiff2bw:

It produces inapropriate shrinking of contrast range (white is not converted to white, but to about 95% grey)

tiff2ps:

html/Makefile.in:

forgotten to update it for 3.5.x docs

configure stuff:

linux have since late 1996 libc.so.6, only old distribution libc.so.5 tested in libtiff. Also dll versioning part is strange and generated bad library version name. It depends on setting ALPHA version.

tiffcp?:

There is no simple way to edit resolution and image comment.

install stuff:

it creates empty "/tiff.sw.tools". Why?

And note to LZW (especially note in TODO):

1) LZW re-enabling kit is not complete/buggy/insufficient. There is sed fix filter:

# fix messages and warn about license
sedfile "s/no longer supported by default due to Unisys patent enforcement/needs US license from Unisys/" */*.c
sedfile "s/is no longer implemented due to Unisys patent enforcement/needs US license from Unisys/" */*.c
# un-fail on LZW
sedfile "/LZW/,/}/s/TIFFError(tif->tif_name,/fprintf(stderr, /;/LZW/,/}/s/Unisys/&\\\\n/" libtiff/tif_compress.c
# re-enable lzw by default
sedfile "s/\\(uint16.*compression.*=.*COMPRESSION_\\)PACKBITS/\\1LZW/" tools/*.c

2) Please, don't delete it from tools; mark it by #ifdef instead. It is legal to keep the code there. (and simplifies additional adding of lzw code). The same note applies to tiff/tif_dir.c and libtiff/tif_compress.c, where code was removed (errorred), instead of #ifdef'ing

Stanislav Brabec
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