[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] turbovnc: new package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Nov 6 22:38:21 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 23:19:00 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > 1. TurboVNC really does depend of turbo-jpeg, that's one of the reasons it's so
> > fast.
> > So for now I have made it "depends on BR2_PACKAGE_JPEG_TURBO" so that turbovnc
> > package will only appear to menu only if jpeg-turbo has been also selected.
> > Is that okay?  
> 
>  Yes, there is no other way. However, please do add a comment (separately from
> the toolchain comments) that it needs jpeg-turbo.

I still would like to challenge why it needs jpeg-turbo. libjpeg and
jpeg-turbo are supposed to be API compatible, so how can TurboVNC need
one rather than the other? I can understand that TurboVNC's performance
might be horrible with the regular libjpeg, but I don't get why it
wouldn't work.

Stefan?

Thomas
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