Jorge wrote:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 03:49:05AM +0000, corvid wrote:
[...] Is there a good reason not to use whatever libpng-config is linked to?
I don't know these days, but a few years ago I had to add all of those tests because of different names of the configure script and there were distros packing two versions of the library and using the script name to differentitate among them.
*Handle with care*
Okay, how about rearranging to put libpng-config first to get whatever they prefer, and we can add in backup tests for versions with less... I was going to say 'urgency', but of course we haven't released a version that handles 1.4 yet... (Aside: With eleven years of history now, we seem to run into a lot of "I think a long time ago, we needed that for something" which suggests that we should be a bit obsessive about our documentation. Sometimes you can get a hint from the list archives, but often the pattern is "A release looms, and someone contacts Jorge off-list about whatever problem, and it is quietly patched".)