From: Vadim Zeitlin <[email protected]>
>  When building libjpeg ourselves we rename boolean to wxjpeg_boolean (which
> is still int, as original boolean). I had several problems because of this
> though so I almost convinced myself that it would be better to just let
> Windows define boolean as "unsigned char" and use this definition --
> libjpeg seems to still work just fine with it.
[...]
>  However if Fedora chose to fix it in almost the same way as we did, it's
> probably simpler/safer to follow their lead and just rename wxjpeg_boolean
> to jpeg_boolean.

This is why we (Fedora MinGW) need to get these issues fixed upstream
and not carry incompatible patches.

And where upstream is disfunctional (as in this case) we need to
create a viable upstream with or without the support of the original
developers.

Rich.

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