[arch-general] nitrogen libpng rebuild information

[pyther]

On 01/22/2010 12:52 PM, pyther wrote:
> As nitrogen is currently orphaned I am sending this message here in 
> hopes to avoid duplicate efforts.
>
> Two issues:
> -Nitrogen won't build against libpng 14
> -Nitrogen crashes with "terminate called after throwing an instance of 
> 'Gdk::PixbufError'"
>
> According to the developer: "It had a stray include of a libpng file 
> that it hasnt needed in years that just sorta stayed there and recent 
> libpng updates made that line problematic." He states that debian has 
> a patch for this.
>
> However, he also states: "That's been long fixed in git. You can clone 
> master if you want and grab it, or wait a few days, 1.5 has been in rc 
> for a few weeks and no complaints about it so far so i'll release it 
> soon." He stated it can be as soon as today.
>
> The crashes occur with both nitrogen 1.4.2 (from the extra repo) and 
> git (soon to by 1.5). As I am writing this message, I am currently 
> working with the developer to resolve this issue. He has given me a 
> patch, which essential catches the error and prints some debug info to 
> stderr. With this patch nitrogen git runs flawlessly. So I believe it 
> is going to be a simple fix that should be hopefully be applied to git 
> in the next few hours.
>
> With this said, I suggest that we wait for nitrogen 1.5 to be 
> released. Even if we were to patch 1.4.2 we would still have the issue 
> of the gdk::PixbufError crashes.
>
> ~pyther
>
Nitrogen 1.5 is released!
http://projects.l3ib.org/nitrogen/files/nitrogen-1.5.tar.gz