wmaker TIFF (actually libtiff4) problem

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:56:20PM +0000, reidel@comcast.net wrote:
>Several people including myself have experienced the problem where
>WindowMaker 0.80.2-1 does not properly display some TIFF images.  This
>message describes a solution that seems to work for me.  It of course
>does not seem like a good thing to do, so use at your own risk.  (I
>haven't experienced any adverse effects so far).
>
>I simply replaced /bin/cygtiff4.dll with /bin/cygtiff3.dll.
>
>i.e.  cp /bin/cygtiff3.dll /bin/cygtiff4.dll
>
>If you do not have cygtiff3.dll, you just need to install the libtiff3
>package.

Copying dlls with different versions is rarely a good idea.  It's a better
idea to figure out what is ostensibly wrong with cygtiff4.dll and fix
that.