Mame 0.145 and the sorry state of included libraries !

[Jordi Mallach]

Hey Manu!

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 07:21:14PM +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
> Mame 0.145 and among other things ship two new libraries to provide jpeg
> decoding and flac export.

Ugh.

> 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 )

Ok, it looks like a nice mess.

> 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.

I think reverting might be a good idea, if it works, and in the meanwhile,
we wait for a possible patch.

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

Yeah, we really want to avoid using the included jpeg and flac libs, we
*really* need to use the system libs, or none at all.

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

Awesome! Congratulations!

> @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.

This sounds promising, let's see how it goes!

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