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‘configure’ will use ‘pkg-config’ to find the flags to link to ‘jpeg’ if available (as it should be for the recently-released ‘jpeg-9c’ and ‘libjpeg-turbo’). (This amends the code added in R 3.3.0 as the module name in ‘jpeg-9c’ is not what that tested for.)