[gobolinux-users] Re: Problem with libpng

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 7/13/06, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> On 7/13/06, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> > There's a problem with compilation of latest version (1.2.10) of libpng,
> > or rather $target isn't expanded in pkgconfig/libpng.pc. Instead of giving
> > absolute path for prefix it says "prefix=$target". This breaks all
> > compilations that uses libpng. Anyone got a good idea on how to solve this
> > in a simple way?
>
> Ouch, that's true, and was probably caused due to the fact that LibPNG
> is an autoconf package, while the recipe was indicating it was a
> makefile one. I've just fixed that, and the new recipe finds attached.

Maybe that explains André's "why the heck" comment in the Recipe...
perhaps that pre_link section isn't even really needed?

-- Hisham