Re: libpng conflict?
yes, but from what I understand, this will break ABI compatibality of
gnome 1.4, which is something that the gnome developers have gone
through a huge amount of trouble to maintain.
in reality, fixing imlib is the appropriate solution for gnome (I
believe) in order to fit in with upstream wishes.
shaya
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 00:07, Philippe Troin wrote:
> Shaya Potter <spotter@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
>
> > I seem to be having some serious issues with libpng
> >
> > it seems that most of the gnome stuff is linked against libpng2
> >
> > but, it seems libgdk-imlib is linked against libpng3
> >
> > and this creates an issue as both are being linked into the runtime of
> > applicaitons
> >
> > $ ldd `which evolution` |grep png
> > libpng.so.2 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 (0x40a5d000)
> > libpng.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 (0x40f65000)
> >
> > which seems to cause some corruption issues.
> >
> > is this a bug?
>
> Yes.
>
> Here we go again. Sigh.
>
> I think the best is to get rid of libpng2-dev in sid/unstable and
> recompile all the packages that depend on libpng2. That's a huge
> volume of packages, but should be brainless.
>
> Phil.
>
>
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