Mame 0.145 and the sorry state of included libraries !

[Emmanuel Kasper]

Hello Team !

Mame 0.145 and among other things ship two new libraries to provide jpeg
decoding and flac export.
Unfortunately the jpeg library was hacked by the mame developers before
being added to the source tree, and it is not possible to compile sliver
( the games which uses libjpeg )  with the standard jpeg library.

A guy from Fedora tryed to provided a patch to fix this, but the problem
is rather deep as far as my modest C knowledge allows to understand (
see this thread: 
http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=76614 )

Now Mame 0.145  has been just released two days ago, so maybe one of the
developpers will have a look at this problem.

In the meantime I might revert sliver.c to the version in 0.144, or
disable it at compile time.

@jordi: any opinion on that ? I have the feeling this must be a common
problem in Linux Software packaging.

Also I have been accepted as Debian Maintainer by the DM Team :)
( http://anonscm.debian.org/loggerhead/keyring/debian-keyring/revision/880 )

@ludo: Linux Pratique will have a special issue concerning Emulation,
deadline in April. I am sure they would love to have an article from you
about making a mame cabinet. See:
http://www.ed-diamond.com/articles/ for how to contribute.
A far as I am concerned, I will write an article about Thomson 8 bits
emulation using Mess.

Manu