Heads up: libpng bumped to 1.5.x in rawhide

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Nov 5 21:02:42 UTC 2011


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Lots of executables end up linked with libpng12 due to other libs (cairo,
> gdk-pixbuf2) being linked with it. Neither -lpng12 or -lpng is added
> explicitly.

Not due to them being LINKED with it, but due to them shipping .pc or .la 
files (probably .pc, since we normally don't ship .la files in Fedora) which 
add -lpng12 when you didn't ask for it.

        Kevin Kofler



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