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dmorissette committed May 25, 2004
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To build the "mapserv" CGI program with the default options, go to the
directory where you extracted the MapServer source code package and...

$ cd mapserver-4.0.x
$ cd mapserver-4.2.x
$ ./configure
$ make

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--with-tiff[=DIR] Include TIFF support (DIR is LibTIFF's install dir).

Tiff support is optional, but it will be included by default if configure
finds libtiff on your system.
finds libtiff on your system. If you use --with-gdal then Tiff support is
disabled by default since GDAL includes Tiff support.

Use --without-tiff to explicitly disable Tiff support.

Use the --with-tiff=DIR option to use a copy of LibTiff installed in
directory "DIR". Make sure that this copy of LibTiff is compiled before
using this option.

Do not use --with-tiff together with --with-gdal. If you are also using
--with-gdal then you should *not* use --with-tiff. GDAL provides better
Tiff support than this option, and that will save potential problems at
runtime.

Note: Your version of libtiff may have been compiled with JPEG or ZLIB
support. If so, you may need to specify --with-jpeg=DIR or --with-zlib=DIR
to resolve these libraries for linking. Failure to resolve dependent
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