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Hi all. I'm in need of handling a large ammount of tiff files which are made with the Group 4 compression. Sadly PIL doesn't natively handle this kind of files but there is a patch that does just that (instructions). I've managed to compile PIL with the patch in my dev box, but it needs to overwrite some of the libTiff's header files which I think it's not cool on a shared account. Has anyone been in need of the same thing? Does anyone has some pointer as how should I proceed with this? I could not find any autoritative source on PIL's configure options, is there any documentation here on webfaction? Thanks in advance. |
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This builds flawlessy in a virtualenv. It already has the G4 patch and there's no need to overwrite anything. |
Overwriting libtiff's header files should be fine on a shared account - you just need to install libtiff first to your HOME directory and then install PIL with the patch, ensuring that it is smart enough to locate your
~/includeheader files and is not hard-coded to try to overwrite/usr/include.There's no harm in trying - you won't as a normal user be able to accidentally remove the system-wide libraries - and if you have any specific questions, you can bring them here and we can do our best to assist.
Would be great you had post that as an answer! Thanks anyway. I'll post any new.