Re: git: 4ab8088077e5 - main - emulators/wine-devel: Account for bundled png library

In reply to: Alexey Dokuchaev : "Re: git: 4ab8088077e5 - main - emulators/wine-devel: Account for bundled png library"
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From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald_at_pfeifer.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2021 17:18:41 UTC

On Thu, 4 Nov 2021, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>     emulators/wine-devel: Account for bundled png library
>>     
>>     Since version 6.20 Wine bundles its own copy of libpng.
> That's preposterous!  Why would they do that?

I thought the same at first (this being the equivalent of static
linking).

From my understanding the reason is that Wine now also builds PE 
executables (Windows format) where Linux distros and FreeBSD do 
not provide packages. So Wine needs to deliver those itself.

Still...

Gerald