libpng warning

Dennis Veatch dveatch at woh.rr.com
Mon Aug 9 14:02:27 GMT 2004


On Monday 09 August 2004 09:53 am, Terry Chan wrote:
> Or just compile libpng with gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3, where it works with
> absolutely NO problems.  And have we started adding gcc-3.4.x patches
> to moonbase modules when we still haven't even removed all the gcc-3.3.x
> patches from the moonbase yet ?
>
> Terry Chan
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>

So as things currently are with moonbase, will libpng be bumped to 1.2.6rc1?

> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:35:59AM +0200, Auke Kok wrote:
> > Some people didn't believe me last week when I said that a libpng
> > upgrade ( to the version with the security patches ) broke my box:
> >
> > root at joule21 /usr/include # nm /usr/lib/libpng12.so | grep gcov
> >         U __gcov_init
> >         U __gcov_merge_add
> >
> > These two symbols are left undefined on my box with gcc-3.4.1... hence
> > everything that uses libpng will either malfunction (I had no icons
> > whatsoever anymore) or not compile (gtk+-2 etc).
> >
> > Apparently on the gcc ML there are several patches merged regarding
> > this. For now it means that people on gcc >> 3.4.0 should use caution
> > when patching libpng or wait until I find a fix that will work with gcc
> >
> > >> 3.4.0
> >
> > sofar
>
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