upscope <upscope at nwi.net> writes: > On Monday, February 13, 2012 10:27:56 AM Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> upscope <upscope at nwi.net> writes: >> > On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 09:40:34 AM Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> >> [snip release announcement] >> > >> > Just a quick question. Who is going to support the software now. I >> > called Epson Support the other day because a failure of >> > iscan-2.28.1-3.ltdl7.x86_64.rpm where is compiled againt libpng. >> > >> > Error: >> > libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from >> > libpng-1.2.31 libpng warning: Application is running with png.c >> > from libpng-1.4.8 libpng warning: Incompatible libpng version in >> > application and library terminate called after throwing an instance >> > of 'std::bad_alloc'> >> > what(): std::bad_alloc >> > >> > Aborted >> >> Please see http://download.ebz.epson.net/faq/linux/faq_ls_00003.html. >> You need a sufficiently old PNG library for PNG support to work. >> >> As to the support question, your local Epson Support is your best bet >> at the moment (considering the absence of any contact information on >> the download pages themselves). >> >> Hope this helps, > Thanks. I was hoping to be able to recompile ISCAN for the newer > libpng.
That ought to do the trick as well (although we haven't tested that). > Actually libpng12-0-1.2.46-9.1.2.x86_64 is installed in addition to > libpng14 because VirtualBox needs the earlier version. I still get the > above error. That's due to the library search algorithm. It looks for a usable libpng.so first, then for a usable libpng12.so. > I'll search and see if libpng 1.2.31 is available somewhere. > > Thanks for your response. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962