Re: [gentoo-hardened] offtopic: libpng upgrade

[Ian Fox <ian@maide.ca>]

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While this is only a temporary solution untill old packages start using
libpng1.5, emering libpng-1.4.8-r2, since it's in a 1.4 slot, fixed all of
the compile errors for me, and kept my 1.5.  I don't know if there were any
issues with that version, but I have not run into any.

On 22 September 2011 15:23, "Tóth Attila" <atoth@atoth.sote.hu> wrote:

> I've suspected, that it won't be a torch-light procession.
> But reality exceeded my expectations.
> Around 60 packages failed out of approx 100! I've followed the ebuild's
> advice, that I leave the old library in place and revdep all packages
> linked to it.
> Acutally it would be better to remove the old library immediately, because
> a bunch of packages still tried to use -lpng14 for linking. In those case
> removing the old libs seems to help most of the time. But it will take
> another day to roll over the packages.
> Of course some packages will still fail. But it could spare me a day of
> useless compiles failing at the end while linking if I would have removed
> the old library for the first time.
> --
> dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus, 06-20-825-8057
> Attila Toth MD, Radiologist, +36-20-825-8057
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