Re: [Sheflug] Awful world of JPEG

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 29 May 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>     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.

Okay, maybe I was a little unfair, I was talking more in the general
sense. However, I don't agree libtool is a bitch!! Compiling a .so JPEG is
Well Easy(tm) [1], just do a './configure --enable-shared'. Then 'make'.
That ain't hard, is it? JPEG building is easier than it was, though,
agreed.

Cheers,

Alex

[1] - of course, you need libtool installed inthe first place for this to
work. It's on my system, but then I develop, so it may not be on
everyone's system. Open offer: I'll send anyone a libjpeg.so.62.0.0 who
wants one, compiled by my very hands. It's about 150k, so it's pretty
mailable I reckon. I'm running egcs, tho, if that makes any difference to
anyone out there. I think I'm targeted for i486, although that shouldn't
be a problem for anyone here ;))


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