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I'm running on a Linux Suse8 system with Ghostscript 8.6.2 and ImageMagick 6.4.0-9.
Everything works except I cannot convert gif to tif or jpg to tif. The same files convert fine on my windows system.

GIF to TIF:

convert Peppers_closeup.gif peppers.tif
convert: ../libtiff/tif_predict.c:476: TIFFPredictorCleanup: Assertion `sp != 0' failed.


I compiled the components on my Linux systems and I see a few errors in config.log regarding
tif. Is there something I am missing? A library perhaps?

From config.log:

configure:39568: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -W -pthread -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lfreetype conftest.c -ltiff -llcms -ljpeg -lpng -lfreetype -ldpstk -ldps -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lz -lm -ldl -lpthread >&5
/tmp/ccWWLAoy.o: In function `main':
/usr/local/ImageMagick-6.4.0/conftest.c:210: undefined reference to `TIFFGetConfiguredCODECs'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

configure:39597: result: no
configure:39512: checking for TIFFMergeFieldInfo
configure:39568: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -W -pthread -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lfreetype conftest.c -ltiff -llcms -ljpeg -lpng -lfreetype -ldpstk -ldps -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lz -lm -ldl -lpthread >&5
/tmp/ccaB1gYK.o: In function `main':
/usr/local/ImageMagick-6.4.0/conftest.c:210: undefined reference to `TIFFMergeFieldInfo'
configure:39597: result: no
configure:39512: checking for TIFFReadEXIFDirectory
configure:39568: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -W -pthread -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lfreetype conftest.c -ltiff -llcms -ljpeg -lpng -lfreetype -ldpstk -ldps -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lz -lm -ldl -lpthread >&5
/tmp/cc8ErfEZ.o: In function `main':
/usr/local/ImageMagick-6.4.0/conftest.c:210: undefined reference to `TIFFReadEXIFDirectory'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:39597: result: no
configure:39512: checking for TIFFSetErrorHandlerExt
configure:39568: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -W -pthread -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lfreetype conftest.c -ltiff -llcms -ljpeg -lpng -lfreetype -ldpstk -ldps -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lz -lm -ldl -lpthread >&5
/tmp/ccmsKrat.o: In function `main':
/usr/local/ImageMagick-6.4.0/conftest.c:210: undefined reference to `TIFFSetErrorHandlerExt'
configure:39512: checking for TIFFSetWarningHandlerExt
configure:39568: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -W -pthread -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lfreetype conftest.c -ltiff -llcms -ljpeg -lpng -lfreetype -ldpstk -ldps -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lz -lm -ldl -lpthread >&5
/tmp/ccamr1eX.o: In function `main':
/usr/local/ImageMagick-6.4.0/conftest.c:211: undefined reference to `TIFFSetWarningHandlerExt'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:39597: result: no
configure:39512: checking for TIFFSwabArrayOfTriples
configure:39568: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -W -pthread -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lfreetype conftest.c -ltiff -llcms -ljpeg -lpng -lfreetype -ldpstk -ldps -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lz -lm -ldl -lpthread >&5
/tmp/ccMP2pw4.o: In function `main':
/usr/local/ImageMagick-6.4.0/conftest.c:211: undefined reference to `TIFFSwabArrayOfTriples'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Seems to be a problem with your TIFF delegate library. In the mean-time try this:

• convert Peppers_closeup.gif -compress none peppers.tif

That worked for both gif to tif and jpg to tif. What does the "-compress none" option do
or not do?

Also, what would cause the problem in the delegate library? Do I need to rebuild with some
options on or off?

Notice how the error is in TIFF, not ImageMagick:

• convert: ../libtiff/tif_predict.c:476: TIFFPredictorCleanup: Assertion `sp != 0' failed.

Looks like a problem with zip compression in the TIFF library. Can you upgrade that library? If not, don't use zip compression when creating TIFF image files.

Thanks!

This resolves the problem for me. We are using libtiff.so.3.5.7. I'll see what I can find. Is
there a recommended version of libtiff?

Also, from your post, I'm assuming that the zip compression is the default for tiff images.