What does this message mean? I am running fedora 15 and I have both pkg-config as well as the following packages installed: libpng-1.2.46-1.fc15.x86_64 libpng10-devel-1.0.55-1.fc15.x86_64 libpng-devel-1.2.46-1.fc15.x86_64 libpng10-1.0.55-1.fc15.x86_64 Here is the relevant portion: there is no libpng14 on fedora, but there is mingw32-libpng-1.4.8-1.fc15.noarch which puts libpng14-config strangely into /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libpng14-config. checking for libpng-config... which: no libpng14-config in (/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin) /usr/bin/libpng12-config checking for libpng version... 1.2.46 (newer version) ..... everything else compiles "fine"....
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:03:43 -0400, Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Here is the relevant portion: there is no libpng14 on fedora, but there is mingw32-libpng-1.4.8-1.fc15.noarch which puts libpng14-config strangely into /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libpng14-config.
The mingw32-libpng package is used for cross-compiling code for Windows. Offhand I'm not sure why it's a different version than your system libpng.
checking for libpng-config... which: no libpng14-config in (/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin) /usr/bin/libpng12-config checking for libpng version... 1.2.46 (newer version) .....
everything else compiles "fine"....
The message just means Dillo's checking for libpng 1.4, then falling back on 1.2 if that's not found. Fedora probably ships 1.2.46 for stability, since a lot of applications are still coded for the older version. As long as Dillo's compiling fine, I wouldn't be too worried about it -- that message is purely informational. ~Benjamin
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 07:03:43PM -0700, Globe Trotter wrote: What does this message mean? I am running fedora 15 and I have both pkg-config as well as the following packages installed:
libpng-1.2.46-1.fc15.x86_64 libpng10-devel-1.0.55-1.fc15.x86_64 libpng-devel-1.2.46-1.fc15.x86_64 libpng10-1.0.55-1.fc15.x86_64
Here is the relevant portion: there is no libpng14 on fedora, but there is mingw32-libpng-1.4.8-1.fc15.noarch which puts libpng14-config strangely into /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libpng14-config.
checking for libpng-config... which: no libpng14-config in (/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin) /usr/bin/libpng12-config checking for libpng version... 1.2.46 (newer version) .....
everything else compiles "fine"....
It sounds like they need to upgrade their present libpng from libpng-1.2.46 to libpng-1.4.* though. (No, the mingw32 is something ming windows related. Cygwin related??) A quick email to them might get your dependency problem solved, as Dillo is quite popular. On Gentoo, libpng-1.4.8 is marked stable. And the old version here on Gentoo is libpng-1.2.44 & libpng-1.2.45. (libpng-1.4.7 is masked and libpng-1.4.5 is the old stable version here.) -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:08:12 -0400, Roger <rogerx.oss at gmail.com> wrote:
It sounds like they need to upgrade their present libpng from libpng-1.2.46 to libpng-1.4.* though.
(No, the mingw32 is something ming windows related. Cygwin related??)
Not Cygwin -- MinGW's the native GNU compiler for Windows (what I use for Dillo-Win32). Fedora ships MinGW -- and some popular libraries compiled for it -- to allow cross-compiling Windows software from Linux.
On Gentoo, libpng-1.4.8 is marked stable. And the old version here on Gentoo is libpng-1.2.44 & libpng-1.2.45. (libpng-1.4.7 is masked and libpng-1.4.5 is the old stable version here.)
I don't know about Fedora, since they're typically more bleeding edge, but RHEL usually lags a couple major versions behind on most packages, and backports critical security and other fixes to the old version as necessary. It's an extremely expensive and time-consuming system, but it's the only way they can ensure stability when the prevailing culture is against backwards compatibility and stable API's. At least Red Hat's big enough they can get away with it. ~Benjamin
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