Re: Consider to switch libjpeg-turbo as default jpeg

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 04:52:05PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > I see that we currently do not have packages for libjpeg-turbo (but
 > for jpeg) for:
 > 
 > earmv4
 > m68k
 > mips64eb
 > mipsel
 > sh3el
 > sparc
 > 
 > bulktracker doesn't list any failing jpeg-turbo packages
 > https://releng.netbsd.org/bulktracker/graphics/libjpeg-turbo
 > so it's hard for me to say what the problem is here.
 > 
 > Does anyone have details?

Did cmake fail? It doesn't depend on much else. Meanwhile, pbulk does
not report transitive failures nicely (I forget the exact details) and
it's unlikely that the current bulktracker does any of the things one
might do to work around that.

 > > The cmake dependency is extremely heavy.
 > 
 > If it's heavy for the system you're interested in, you can always
 > switch the default there to jpeg. cmake is a quite common built tool,
 > so it will have to be built on most systems anyway.

It is unfortunately hard to avoid cmake.

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David A. Holland
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