firefox & png

Jamie Paul Griffin jamie at kode5.net
Thu Aug 23 06:54:17 UTC 2012


[ Polytropon wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at  2:00:15 +0200 ]

> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:43:55 -0400, david coder wrote:
> > thx, i hadn't seen the reply to my earlier message.
> > 
> > unfortunately, though i've got the png port installed w/ 
> > 
> > 	OPTIONS=        APNG "Animated PNG support" On
> 
> That should be the default. Anyway, you can always check which
> options had been in use when building and installing a port:
> 
> 	% cat /var/db/ports/png/options
> 	# This file is auto-generated by 'make config'.
> 	# No user-servicable parts inside!
> 	# Options for png-1.4.8
> 	_OPTIONS_READ=png-1.4.8
> 	WITH_APNG=true
> 
> In this example you can see that it has been properly installed.
> 
> 
> 
> > the install of freebsd fails w/ the error message given below.
> 
> Sadly the Firefox build error message is not included. 
> 
> 
> 
> > is there something else required in the png makefile or elsewhere that i'm
> > missing?
> 
> I'm sure this entry of /usr/ports/UPDATING applies:
> 
> 20120531:
>   AFFECTS: users of graphics/png
>   AUTHOR: dinoex at FreeBSD.org
> 
>   The PNG library has been updated to version 1.5.10.  Please rebuild all
>   ports that depend on it.

I built Firefox 14 a couple of days ago and png installed is now version 1.5.12. So an updated ports tree should incorporate that change now shouldn't it.


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