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Autotools build on Windows tries to link with libtiff when it's not available
Current Behavior
When I build v5.3.1 on Windows under MSYS2 without libtiff, the configure script clearly tells that the library is not available:
checking for tiffio.h... no
Yet, linking tesseract.exe gives an error:
-ltiff: No such file or directory
It looks like the libtiff is unconditionally linked on Windows: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/f1e3697dd4ff6ee3726edc629a2d63b6a9dcade8/Makefile.am#L758-L761