On Tuesday 29 June 2010 22:56:56 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Seems like the horrendous screw-up that was the libpng-1.4 update never got > fixed properly and is hitting stable users now. > > Flameeyes, in his usual in-your-face style, has documented what needs to be > done: > > http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update > > If you are a stable user, save yourself a lot of trouble over the next few > days, read his blog and do what he says. He has this uncanny ability of > almost always being correct on technical toolchain matters
Blast! I emerged media-libs/libpng-1.4.3 only 2 days ago and ... I followed what the elog told me which was to run the very scrip that Flameeyes says it causes long term problems! O_O This is what I have in terms of libpng* (on an amd64 system): # ls -la /usr/lib/libpng* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236422 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib/libpng14.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so -> libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14 -> libpng14.so.14.3.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158400 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng.a -> libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib/libpng.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng.so -> libpng14.so # ls -la /usr/lib64/libpng* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236422 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib64/libpng14.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so -> libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14 -> libpng14.so.14.3.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158400 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng.a -> libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib64/libpng.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng.so -> libpng14.so Is this OK? What now? -- Regards, Mick
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