Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:31:31 -0500 > Walter Webb <ng...@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> The blfs book for 2012-01-03 (I also checked 2012-01-07) has a patch >> for firefox-9.0.1. The compile failed with the patch, and succeeded >> without the patch. In the patch itself it says: >> Description: Fixes compiling firefox-9.0 with libpng-1.5.6 installed >> The book has libpng-1.5.5, which is what I used. > > That's interesting. I don't have a system with libpng-1.5.5 installed > to test. I suppose if the problem is with libpng-1.5.6 the patch should > be renamed. > I hadn't noticed that the book still had libpng-1.5.5, I'll update it > to 1.5.7 tomorrow.
Be careful. There are a lot of packages that need libpng. At least qt3, firefox, seamonkey, thunderbird, and gimp have patches for libpng-1.5. Since it's only a point release, they are probably OK, but they should be checked. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
