Re: [Sheflug] Awful world of JPEG

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Al" == Al Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk> writes:

    Al> Mmmm, possible, but it shouldn't do. Although, an rpm designed
    Al> for Caldera probably shouldn't be used with SuSE type
    Al> systems. I still maintian the best way to do it is to get the
    Al> source code and install it properly ;))

That's not fair, Al!  He did get the source code---IJG JEPG does not
provide a libtool-ified version, so he got no .sos.

libtool is a bitch.[1]  I've never gotten it to work from scratch,
fortunately 'most everything on Linux gets libtool-ified early and you
can upgrade by using the old build scaffolding---if you already know
what you're doing.

    Al> There shouldn't be, no. Although, there could be ;). To be
    Al> honest, I don't use the rpm system myself, I find it to be a
    Al> little bit of a blunt tool.

Ah, by the way, I borrowed from you on the TLUG mailing list a few
minutes ago, said something like "There is no such thing as a `core
package', only `core programs' and `core data'.  The problem with
current PMSes is they ignore that."

I hope you approve!  (Although I forgot to cite you :( )


Footnotes: 
[1]  I'm quoting, although I agree with the sentiment.

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