#11 BSD Compilation

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to persuade this software to work under
FBSD. So far, I've run into required header files that
aren't in the same places, ones where the Makefile
lists Redhat-specific locations, inclusions of header
files within the code which simply don't exist,
depricated use of malloc.h, ... It's not working yet.

At this point, my best guess is that I will have to
manually change all the includes throughout it to
reflect the system architecture. While having to
change one or two files for BSD is quite common, facing
this level of incompatibility is quite rare. Based on
some of the header locations listed in the Makefile, I
doubt this would even work out-of-the-box on any Linux
other than Redhat.

This is the only software I've been able to find for
this purpose, so I'm really looking forward to getting
it working. There are many OCR suites, but a system
purely for preperatory image manipulation is a fabulous
idea. I just hope it won't be more work to get it
running than it would have been to rewrite it entirely.

-- Sorel
feonixrift@gmail.com

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I just got tifftool to work by deleting all the header files
in the Makefile that didn't exist on my Solaris 8 box. I can
see it deskewing.

Garey Mills gmills@library.berkeley.edu