Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:17:01AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:06:33PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:36:24 +1100 > > Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My question still remains. If we require a big recompile, when/ how are > > > we

Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:06:33PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:36:24 +1100 > Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My question still remains. If we require a big recompile, when/ how are we > > going to bother to advise the maintainers of these packages? It has been

Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-02 Thread Mark Purcell
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:06:21PM +0100, Noel Koethe wrote: > On Mit, 02 Jan 2002, Mark Purcell wrote: > > > > That's the problem; there is just no real solution besides a big > > > recompile. > > > > My question still remains. If we require a big recompile, when/ how are we > > going to bothe

Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-02 Thread Noel Koethe
On Mit, 02 Jan 2002, Mark Purcell wrote: > > That's the problem; there is just no real solution besides a big > > recompile. > > My question still remains. If we require a big recompile, when/ how are we > going to bother to advise the maintainers of these packages? It has been > stated that w

Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-02 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:36:24 +1100 Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question still remains. If we require a big recompile, when/ how are we > going to bother to advise the maintainers of these packages? It has been > stated that we are talking about 300+ packages :-( Mass NMU, setti

Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-02 Thread Mark Purcell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > That's the problem; there is just no real solution besides a big > recompile. My question still remains. If we require a big recompile, when/ how are we going to bother to advise the maintainers

Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem appears to be that libqt2 now links to libpng3 rather than > libpng2. When the dynamic linker loads a QT-dependent application still > linked against libpng2, it overrides libqt2's png symbols with the png > symbols defined in the application,

Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020101 15:44]: > > > binary packages built from kdeutils depend on libpng directly. Why? > > > > I can only guess, but I heard that are systems where an shared library > > can not depent on other shared libraries so the application has to > > link against all. P

Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 03:41:54PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020101 15:08]: > > I'm also a little confused by why so many KDE applications link to > > libpng directly. Picking kdeutils at random, the only instances of > > 'png_' or 'png.h' anywhere in the

Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020101 15:08]: > I'm also a little confused by why so many KDE applications link to > libpng directly. Picking kdeutils at random, the only instances of > 'png_' or 'png.h' anywhere in the source tree are in > admin/acinclude.m4.in, yet -lpng is on the link line

Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:39:07PM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote: > Btw, this appears to be a major backwards incompatibily problem > between libpng2 -> 3 which effects lots and lots of packages. > The solution is rather simple, requiring recompilation to > get the correct linkage to libpng3, but it wo

Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-01 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 21:25:24 +1100 Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The incompatibility as I see it from here is that any application > which depends on libpng2, is only good with libpng2 <= 1.0.12-2 and > upon recompiling will be dependant on libpng3. > > libqt 2.3.1-18 has been recompil

Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-01 Thread Mark Purcell
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 06:50:03PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 19:39:07 +1100 Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The solution is rather simple, requiring recompilation to > > get the correct linkage to libpng3, but it would of been nice to > > see some dicussion on