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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-devhelp@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-devhelp] Re: How to modify makefile to link against libpng 1.2?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:57:51
Message-Id: imgenv$8ud$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-devhelp] How to modify makefile to link against libpng 1.2? by Mike Frysinger
1 On 03/24/2011 11:53 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> How should the link command look for it to link against libpng 1.2 rather
4 >> than 1.4? (I seem to have both installed.)
5 >
6 > you cant. the libpng-1.2 ebuild in the tree only installs the library
7 > that is needed by applications at runtime (libpng12.so.0). it
8 > provides no header files to compile against nor libraries to link
9 > against.
10 > -mike
11
12 That sounds kinda sad :-P Does that mean there's no way to build this
13 app at all on Gentoo?

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