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From: Ladislav Laska <ladislav.laska@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] [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 12:04:01
Message-Id: AANLkTinteRd8joxwNcVdVH1Ap9o5twH-NUBbQO_YSHRc@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] [kde-sunset] x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b fails to build with libpng-1.4 because a patch is not being applied by Brent Busby
1 Hello,
2
3 if you ask me, I'd say I already fixed it. Well, I may be mistaken. I
4 will test this patch tomorrow and commit update, if it works.
5
6 Regards Ladislav Laska
7 S pozdravem Ladislav Laska
8 ---
9 xmpp/jabber: ladislav.laska@××××××.cz
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13 On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Brent Busby <brent@×××××××××.org> wrote:
14 > On Fri, 14 May 2010, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
15 >
16 >> x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r2 and -r1 (in the kde-sunset overlay) currently fail
17 >> to compile with libpng-1.4 because some structure fields in png.h have
18 >> gotten renamed.
19 >>
20 >> Fortunately, in February a patch to fix this issue
21 >> (files/qt-3.3.8-libpng14.patch) was added to the overlay.
22 >>
23 >> Unfortunately, even though the patch is there, the qt ebuilds in the
24 >> overlay don't apply it.
25 >>
26 >> Please add  epatch "${FILESDIR}/qt-3.3.8-libpng14.patch" to the qt:3
27 >> ebuilds.
28 >
29 > I've read something to the effect that libpng-1.4 is causing all kinds of
30 > headaches even in mainline Gentoo (even without kde-sunset).  It's got me
31 > nervous to update...  I still remember about ten years ago when a libpng
32 > update completely hosed a FreeBSD desktop I was maintaining then. Here we go
33 > again!  :-/
34 >
35 > --
36 > + Brent A. Busby         + "We've all heard that a million monkeys
37 > + UNIX Systems Admin     +  banging on a million typewriters will
38 > + University of Chicago  +  eventually reproduce the entire works of
39 > + Physical Sciences Div. +  Shakespeare.  Now, thanks to the Internet,
40 > + James Franck Institute +  we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky
41 >
42 >

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