libjpeg vs. libjpeg-turbo

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On May 22, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:

>> On May 21, 2015, at 11:11 PM, Mihai Moldovan <ionic at macports.org> wrote:
>>> This would involve verifying that libjpeg-turbo works (or at least builds)
>>> correctly on PowerPC and Intel Macs running 10.4 and up.
>> 
>> This could become an issue on PPC and older versions. Who can test, whether
>> current libjpeg-turbo builds?
> 
> also, that’s ridiculous since we only officially support the current and previous OS release (and we probably shouldn’t be helping people to keep running systems that aren’t receiving security patches from Apple anymore).
> 
> If it does build there, and we can verify it - great - otherwise I don’t think it should stop us from moving forward.

Fortunately, libjpeg-turbo 1.4.0 builds fine for PowerPC (under 10.6 Rosetta, at least).

https://trac.macports.org/changeset/136595

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