POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unix : Compile error help needed : Re: Compile error help needed Server Time
8 Jul 2024 17:29:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Compile error help needed  
From: earthdog
Date: 10 Apr 2003 20:06:56
Message: <3e960720@news.povray.org>
"Roz" <rzl### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message
news:3e944a6d@news.povray.org...
> earthdog wrote:
> > On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:04:19 +0200, Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> >
> >
> >>In article <pan### [at] NOSPAMevil3dnet> ,
"earthdog"
> >><ear### [at] NOSPAMevil3dnet> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>-Wno-multichar -c tiff_pov.cpp tiff_pov.cpp:46:20: tiffio.h: No such
file
> >>>or directory tiff_pov.cpp:55: type specifier omitted for parameter
> >>
> >>FYI, here it tells you...
> >
> >
> >
> > Can you point me in the right direction for obtining these files?  I'm
> > lost.  I've looked through my distro files, no joy.
> >
> > --Jeff
>
> I don't know if you solved the tiffio.h issue yet but if not then what
> you need to do is search for libtiff. I'm not familiar with Mandrake so
> I can't point you to where on their site you can get the libtiff rpm but
>    you could try http://rpmfind.net and search for libtiff. Another
> alternative is http://www.libtiff.org but it would probably be better
> for you if you could find the appropriate rpm for your distro.
>
> -Roz
>

I solved the problem.  It was simply that the libtiff-devel libs were not
installed.  I didn't think to look for that at first as I always install all
devel libs and I've never had to worry about it before.  Apparently, the
libtiff-devel package was left out of the devel list for 9.1.

--Jeff


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