Bug 329911 – Libpng widely used but does not provide .la file

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description John 2010-07-26 13:42:14 UTC]

The are a whole lot of applications requiring libpng12, but they all fail to link because libpng12 does not provide a .la file. I tried to create one from libpng14 but no use. Also linking libpng14.la to libpng12.la does not do the trick.

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-07-26 13:47:15 UTC]

Run the script mentioned in libpng-1.4.3's postinst message. It will fix the .la files to not require libpng12* anymore.

[Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-10-04 15:11:36 UTC]

*** Bug 339711 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Andrew Randrianasulu 2010-10-04 15:27:46 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Run the script mentioned in libpng-1.4.3's postinst message. It will fix the
> .la files to not require libpng12* anymore.
> 

script requires  app-prortage/portage-utils. It was not installed on my system ... can we make it dependency for libpng14 ?

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-10-04 16:12:44 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Run the script mentioned in libpng-1.4.3's postinst message. It will fix the
> > .la files to not require libpng12* anymore.
> > 
> 
> script requires  app-prortage/portage-utils. It was not installed on my system
> ... can we make it dependency for libpng14 ?
> 

No.