On Fri, 20 May 2005, Norman Gray wrote:
> On 2005 May 20 , at 03.48, Tim Jenness wrote:
>
> > It would be entirely possible to dump JPEG from the thirdparty
> > directory
> > and simply say it's a dependency that most people have. We don't really
> > want to get into the game of making rpm packages for packages that
> > already
> > have perfectly good rpm packages.
>
> Hear, hear. I can't recall why we build the jpeg library ourselves.
> It does seem entirely reasonable for us just to require folk to install
> it themselves.
Norman,
the JPEG library is present mainly for Solaris and Tru64 support. These
platforms don't have "an rpm", just an overworked sysadmin.
Steve,
why is it necessary to build this under x86_64? Presumably it not building
signifies there is a good library on the system already.
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