From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@chemoelectric.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Libjpeg-Turbo Drops Newer ABIs
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:50:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130802185032.GA10907@crud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130802134502.77231249f8d453dcd846063a@comcast.net>
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Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> skribis:
> Here is the Gentoo changelog for 1.3.0-r2:
>
> "Revert back to .so.62 with 2 functions backported from .so.8, namely
> jpeg_mem_dest() and jpeg_mem_src(). ABIs .so.7 and .so.8 are dead and
> shouldn't be used anywhere anymore."
>
> This sudden change required the re-emerge of a LOT of packages.
>
> I have not been able to find any background information on the
> reason for this change. Does anyone know the story behind this
> elimination of the newer JPEG ABI's and the step back to .so.62?
> Has any functionality, such as lossless cropping, been affected?
This seems to be the story, if you make some inferences:
http://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/About/Jpeg-9
Basically, it says 7, 8, and now 9 were all a mistake.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-02 17:45 [gentoo-amd64] Libjpeg-Turbo Drops Newer ABIs Frank Peters
2013-08-02 18:02 ` Mark Knecht
2013-08-02 18:18 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-02 18:22 ` Rich Freeman
2013-08-02 18:28 ` Mark Knecht
2013-08-02 18:58 ` Frank Peters
2013-08-02 19:17 ` Mark Knecht
2013-08-03 7:17 ` Sergey Popov
2013-08-02 18:24 ` Mark Knecht
2013-08-02 18:40 ` Mark Knecht
2013-08-02 18:50 ` Barry Schwartz [this message]
2013-08-02 19:06 ` Frank Peters
2013-08-02 19:31 ` Barry Schwartz
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