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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: news item for png15
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:48:02
Message-Id: 1318704404.22138.0.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: news item for png15 by Samuli Suominen
1 El sáb, 15-10-2011 a las 19:35 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió:
2 > On 10/14/2011 11:48 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
3 > > El vie, 14-10-2011 a las 01:01 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió:
4 > >> small news item for stable users. lets keep it simple...
5 > >>
6 > >
7 > > Is early rebuilding of gdk-pixbuf still needed now that fixed version
8 > > will be stabilized before libpng15?
9 >
10 > The blockers that will force gdk-pixbuf to rebuilt first will just
11 > ensure there are no -lpng14 or -lpng15 entries in gdk-pixbuf-2.0.pc that
12 > would break apps compile-time.
13 >
14 > The rebuilding of gdk-pixbuf and cairo is still necessary early, because
15 > apps using gdk-pixbuf to handle .png at buildtime AND runtime (mostly
16 > gnome apps) will fail with message ".png: File type is not supported"
17 > (Maybe not with this exact wording, but close to it.) that is an result
18 > of condition where eg. cairo is built against png14 but gdk-pixbuf with
19 > png15 or otherway around -- conflict
20 >
21 >
22
23 OK, thanks a lot for the explanation :)

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