Fwd: Mame 0.145 and the sorry state of included libraries !

[Cesare Falco]

Hey Manu and all!

> I have now a working patch to build with libjpeg, but I am not sure of
I've just improved it to allow switch between system/custom library.
This should make it acceptable upstream too, after Marcelo's has been rejected
http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=77683#Post77683

Ehm... who's Marcelo anyway? I see his patch looks just the same as
that in the debian/patches tree :)

> the code quality. Maybe someone can review it ? Generally is there some
> kind of code review tools/people available inside Debian ?
Looks good to me but I have no idea regarding Debian coding...

> I mean it is better to fine embedded libs with system libs, but if it
> lowers the code quality ...
I agree, and also have to correct my former assumption that a 7zip
system library is available which is ...ehr... not!

> Note that with this patch Mame does not build anymore on Debian/Stable
> since it requires libjpeg8.
...or you can use the new BUILD_JPEGLIB switch to use the custom lib... ;)

Cheers,
Cesare.