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From: Ladislav Laska <ladislav.laska@...>
Subject: Re: [kde-sunset] x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b fails to build with libpng-1.4 because a patch is not being applied
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 13:38:25 +0200
Hello,

if you ask me, I'd say I already fixed it. Well, I may be mistaken. I
will test this patch tomorrow and commit update, if it works.

Regards Ladislav Laska
S pozdravem Ladislav Laska
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On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Brent Busby <brent@...> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2010, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
>
>> x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r2 and -r1 (in the kde-sunset overlay) currently fail
>> to compile with libpng-1.4 because some structure fields in png.h have
>> gotten renamed.
>>
>> Fortunately, in February a patch to fix this issue
>> (files/qt-3.3.8-libpng14.patch) was added to the overlay.
>>
>> Unfortunately, even though the patch is there, the qt ebuilds in the
>> overlay don't apply it.
>>
>> Please add  epatch "${FILESDIR}/qt-3.3.8-libpng14.patch" to the qt:3
>> ebuilds.
>
> I've read something to the effect that libpng-1.4 is causing all kinds of
> headaches even in mainline Gentoo (even without kde-sunset).  It's got me
> nervous to update...  I still remember about ten years ago when a libpng
> update completely hosed a FreeBSD desktop I was maintaining then. Here we go
> again!  :-/
>
> --
> + Brent A. Busby         + "We've all heard that a million monkeys
> + UNIX Systems Admin     +  banging on a million typewriters will
> + University of Chicago  +  eventually reproduce the entire works of
> + Physical Sciences Div. +  Shakespeare.  Now, thanks to the Internet,
> + James Franck Institute +  we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky
>
>


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Re: [kde-sunset] x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b fails to build with libpng-1.4 because a patch is not being applied
-- Ladislav Laska
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[kde-sunset] x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b fails to build with libpng-1.4 because a patch is not being applied
-- Alexandre Rostovtsev
Re: [kde-sunset] x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b fails to build with libpng-1.4 because a patch is not being applied
-- Brent Busby
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