Bug 419815 – www-client/firefox-13.0 emake fails with media-libs/libpng-1.5.7

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description KoTe 2012-06-05 20:56:47 UTC]

emerge www-client/firefox-13.0 fails if media-libs/libpng-1.5.7 is installed, while it compiles fine with media-libs/libpng-1.5.10

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install media-libs/libpng-1.5.7
2. emerge =www-client/firefox-13.0

To emerge it fine : 
1. Update media-libs/libpng to 1.5.10
2. emerge =www-client/firefox-13.0
Actual Results:  
checking for png_get_valid in -lpng... yes
checking for png_get_acTL in -lpng... yes
configure: error: --with-system-png requested but no working libpng found
*** Fix above errors and then restart with               "make -f client.mk build"
make[2]: *** [configure] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-13.0/work/mozilla-release'
make[1]: *** [obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/Makefile] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-13.0/work/mozilla-release'
make: *** [build] Error 2
emake failed
 * ERROR: www-client/firefox-13.0 failed (compile phase):
 *   emake failed
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *     ebuild.sh, line  85:  Called src_compile
 *   environment, line 6617:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           CC="$(tc-getCC)" CXX="$(tc-getCXX)" LD="$(tc-getLD)" MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="${MAKEOPTS}" emake -f client.mk || die "emake failed";

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-06-05 21:14:22 UTC]

So upgrade to the current stable libpng? 1.5.7 was removed from the tree some months ago.