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Re: [trinity-devel] Any reason NOT to use libjpeg-turbo instead of libjpeg?

From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:39:57 -0500
On 21 February 2012 16:33, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty@...> wrote:
> On 02/21/2012 02:49 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
>>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>>    Is there any reason not to use libjpeg-turbo instead of libjpeg when
>>> building tde? Why not benefit from the acceleration?
>>>
>>> --
>>> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>>
>>
>> I would recommend using it actually.  It makes quite a difference in the
>> VNC applications; I can watch OTA HD TV at several FPS over VNC with it (I
>> know, not really watchable, but still impressive given the overall
>> inefficiency of the VNC protocol).
>>
>> The only reason I haven't compiled into Ubuntu<  Oneiric is that it is
>> only available as a package in Oneiric and up.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>
> That's what I thought. When I originally did the Arch build scripts for
> trinity I had libjpeg-turbo as the dependency, but the current scripts in
> tde-packaging use libjpeg. I've updated my set to use libjpeg-turbo and am
> recompiling Qt3 as we speak. I'll update the Arch scripts in tde-packaging
> as soon as I figure out how to do it :) (it took about 5 minutes to figure
> out svn, I'm sure it's the same for git :)
>
>
>
> --
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

It uses libjpeg as a dependency because libjpeg is provided by
libjpeg-turbo. it should compile fine either way

Calvin