[gobolinux-users] Re: Problem with libpng

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 7/13/06, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Yeah, I've removed both pre_link and the make_variables() array and it
worked fine, just as expected. The problem probably arised at the time
LibPNG turned from a Makefile-based release to a autoconf one, with
the new recipe being created with NewVersion (just guessing).

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Lucas
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