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Curious libjpegturbo fork by an author who hates CMake?

by SMP-UX on 2/2/25, 5:06 AM with 2 comments

• by dextercd on 2/2/25, 2:43 PM

  >By tracking the latest stable and selectively integrating changes we've been able to build libjpegturbo easily on a handful of unsupported architecture/compiler combos of the main. > >We do not hate Cmake or think it's worse, just autoconf is mature and capable and 99% of the time works perfectly fine. We will maintain it as needed.

  /shrug. Doesn't look like a hard fork and it's good for the folks that need it.

  I don't know what issues there are with CMake and older compilers, but I trust that they are real enough to warrant this effort.

• by SMP-UX on 2/2/25, 5:06 AM

  I don't quite get the rationale but ok.