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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-devhelp@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-devhelp] Re: How to modify makefile to link against libpng 1.2?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:00:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=YVnpdZEiEXAFqiennPp1gDHBuJoaMPXsrf_fe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <imgenv$8ud$1@dough.gmane.org>

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 03/24/2011 11:53 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> How should the link command look for it to link against libpng 1.2 rather
>>> than 1.4?  (I seem to have both installed.)
>>
>> you cant.  the libpng-1.2 ebuild in the tree only installs the library
>> that is needed by applications at runtime (libpng12.so.0).  it
>> provides no header files to compile against nor libraries to link
>> against.
>
> That sounds kinda sad :-P  Does that mean there's no way to build this app
> at all on Gentoo?

update the code to the libpng-1.4+ API and i imagine it'll build/link fine
-mike



      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-24 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-24 21:30 [gentoo-devhelp] How to modify makefile to link against libpng 1.2? Nikos Chantziaras
2011-03-24 21:53 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-03-24 21:58   ` [gentoo-devhelp] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-03-24 22:00     ` Mike Frysinger [this message]

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