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Re: GNOME 1 ABI involving libpng



Hi,

The gdk-imlib1 linked with libpng2 has returned to the archive.
[Well, the sources are there, the binary packages will be available
when the autobuilders get to them.]

If you wish to build your imlib-using program or library with libpng2,
just update your build-depends to gdk-imlib1-dev or imlib1-dev.  This
will be helpful for anyone who also builds against libgdk-pixbuf.  ;-)


Ryan mentions:

> Another thing that would help is a change to glib's module support
> to allow loading without RTLD_GLOBAL, which, IMHO, for the image
> loading plugins is probably a good idea.  Both imlib and
> gdk-pixbuf's loaders currently use the module support from glib.

For what it's worth, Redhat did this for gdk-imlib in their beta
("rawhide") release.  It probably is a good idea.  They did it by
ripping the relevant code out of glib and linking it directly into
imlib.  Rather than repeat this with each plugin-type library, maybe
the glib authors would accept a patch for it.

-Steve



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