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" <at...@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 > > >
