Re: MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

[Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@t-online.de>]

Am 04.01.2016 um 14:06 schrieb Simon McVittie:
> In addition to texlive:
> 
> chromium and ice* might be able to move from their embedded copies to a
> newer system copy, or not, depending whether they've patched them.

Happily Icedove isn't using here a embedded version of libpng, that's a
little bit surprising. :-)

The configure check simply searches for two functions:

> 3636 if test -z "$PNG_DIR" -o "$PNG_DIR" = no; then
> 3637     MOZ_NATIVE_PNG=
> 3638 else
> 3639     AC_CHECK_LIB(png, png_get_valid, [MOZ_NATIVE_PNG=1 MOZ_PNG_LIBS="-lpng"],
> 3640                  AC_MSG_ERROR([--with-system-png requested but no working libpng found]))
> 3641     AC_CHECK_LIB(png, png_get_acTL, ,
> 3642                  AC_MSG_ERROR([--with-system-png won't work because the system's libpng doesn't have APNG support]))
> 3643 fi

I guess that shouldn't provoke errors with the new libpng version.

-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert