[OE-core] [PATCH] gdk-pixbuf: Fix libpng determinism issues

[Colin Walters]

On Sun, 2013-04-14 at 16:33 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-04-14 at 09:02 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> The more interesting change is:
> 
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/commit/configure.ac?id=d430bc4df3314a88cd538474d26ff7764d1f408c
> 
> and following that to the bugzilla 'For this to make sense, I changed
> the order so that a version specific dep, such as libpng15 or
> libpng12,
> is found before just "libpng".'
> 
> I'm not sure I entirely follow that logic.

I added Matthias to CC as he touched this last then.

> I think the intent of the symlink is to provide the system with a
> default libpng to use in the absence of a specific version requirement.
> As the code stands today, each time a new libpng comes out, gdk-pixbuf
> will need changes before it will be able to use it. 

Right, we need configure.ac changes, but the rationale behind that is
that we'd also need *code* changes for each new major version of libpng.
But it sounds like what you're saying is that gdk-pixbuf compiles and
operates correctly with 1.6?  If that's the case, then the least
invasive change here is to simply add 1.6.

Blah, I tried changing the gnome-ostree build to fetch libpng's v1.6.1
git tag to test, but it hard requires Automake 1.13.

Anyways, if it works (looks like the latest oe-core has it), then
what about the attached?

> In the meantime, it
> will potentially link against something old, e.g. 1.2, since 1.2 is in
> the LSB 4.X spec so most LSB like systems would have 1.6 and 1.2.
> 
> If we can justify changing this upstream, that would be great :). It may
> be worth adding libpng16 into the list too so everything is covered too.

At this point I'm hoping the parade of libpng versions will
settle down, so hopefully no further tweaking of the configure script or
code will be required...


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