On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Alex Sla <4k3...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Alex Sla <4k3...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > I just read in the Internet something about 1.2 -> 1.4 should i do this
>> > like
>> > this ? http://gentoo-pr.org/node/22
>>
>> Those steps should largely work. However, anywhere those steps say
>> "libpng14", think "libpng15" instead, and anywhere they say
>> "libpng12", think "libpng14" instead.
>>
>> Also, some apps may break with libpng, even after all the libtool and
>> relinking stuff is taken care of. The current stable xemacs (-r1), for
>> example. There's a patch that fixes it, but that hasn't been made
>> stable yet.[1] (Or hadn't, when I tried --sync and --update earlier
>> today)
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384461
>>
> Maybe i just go back to the stable libpng. Don't have the time in the moment
> to go with some testing.
> When i may get some time soon, i will try.
> Thank you very much
> Greeting's from Germany A.

libpng15 will eventually be stabilized, and the problems you're seeing
now, you'll see then. Just keep that in mind, and keep that list of
steps handy. :)

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