R: R: [GRASS-dev] WinGRASS-6.3.0RC6 Self Installer

[Glynn Clements]

Marco Pasetti wrote:

> I succesfully built libjpeg, but during tests it reported errors, so I
> decided to remove it and then build TIFF without it; In wish list I meant to
> add jpeg and its support in tiff.

Is there a reason to build these from source, rather than using the
GnuWin32 binaries:

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/jpeg.htm
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tiff.htm

Ideally, we should build as little as possible ourselves.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>