On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:07:21 -0500 DRC <dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I think it would be different for other libraries, but realistically, > how long has it been since the jpeg-6b code base has changed? 15 > years? Sun had probably the most stringent packaging guidelines of > anyone in the world, and yet we were able to convince their > architectural review committee of the necessity of statically linking > certain libraries with VirtualGL. The justification was different-- in > the case of VirtualGL, we did so to avoid application interaction > issues. But with TigerVNC, it's an easy sell to say that we're > statically linking JPEG so we can get 2X better performance. > Indeed. But we should be prepared for people having problems because their distribution used the system libs. In a perfect world libjpeg would be maintained and we could push our changes upstream... > And again, I'm not proposing to eliminate the capability of linking with > the system libjpeg. I'm just proposing that that not be the default. > Instead of having a 'configure --with-included-jpeg' switch, have a > 'configure --with-system-jpeg' switch. > Ok with me. Rgds -- Pierre Ossman OpenSource-based Thin Client Technology System Developer Telephone: +46-13-21 46 00 Cendio AB Web: http://www.cendio.com
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