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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2001 03:37:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        sobomax@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/print/ghostscript-afpl Makefile distinfo     pkg-plist ports/print/ghostscript-afpl/files escputil.contrib.mak       hpijs.contrib.mak patch-hpijs:makefile patch-hpijs:platform.h         patch-src:unix-gcc.mak stp.contrib.mak ports/print/ghostscript-afpl/scripts ...
Message-ID:  <200112280837.fBS8bVf26137@aldan.algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <1009489628.238.4.camel@notebook>

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On 27 Dec, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 21:59, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>> On 27 Dec, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote:
>> 
>> >   - Better support for jpeg WRKDIR location
>> 
>> According to the Ghostscript's Make.htm, the only reason GS needs its
>> own  version  of JPEG,  is  because  Adobe's PostScript  interpreters
>> "don't follow JPEG  standard exactly". Which forces  GS developers to
>> build JPEG with the following:
>> 
>> 	#define D_MAX_BLOCKS_IN_MCU 64
>> 
>> perhaps, this is how we should build  our JPEG port to start with and
>> make gs use -ljpeg, like everything else?
> 
> What's the gain?

Generally, it is  considered advantageous to share  the common libraries
between  different executables.  Smaller  run-time memory  requirements,
smaller on-disk binary size, easier maintainance, etc.

	-mi


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