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

[Ladislav Laska]

Does not seem to break anything, so I just pushed it.

Regards Ladislav Laska
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On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Ladislav Laska
<ladislav.laska@×××××.com> wrote:
> 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@×××××××××.org> 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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