libpng 1.5.0 has issues and is breaking builds (but it's not in macports)

Bradley Giesbrecht brad at pixilla.com
Tue Jan 18 12:02:03 PST 2011


I need to get my system back to a functional state.

How can I revert all the software that was upgraded in the last "port  
upgrade outdated" command to the last version before the update?


--
Brad

On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> I don't know where I got 1.5.0 from. Maybe the revision 5_0 threw my  
> eyes.
>
> port installed libpng
> The following ports are currently installed:
>  libpng @1.2.34_0
>  libpng @1.2.35_0
>  libpng @1.2.37_0
>  libpng @1.2.41_0
>  libpng @1.2.42_0
>  libpng @1.2.43_0
>  libpng @1.2.44_0 (active)
>  libpng @1.4.5_0
>
>
> Thumbnail generation on my system is broke again.
>
> What is a command to rebuild libpng deps with variants and not let  
> ghostscript upgrade?
>
> I need to rebuild the current active version of libpng dependents.
>
>
> --
> Brad
>
> On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Russell Jones wrote:
>
>> It can't be as like Ryan said, only 1.4.5 is in macports right now.
>>
>> Russell
>> ________________________________________
>> From: macports-users-bounces at lists.macosforge.org [macports-users-bounces at lists.macosforge.org 
>> ] on behalf of Bradley Giesbrecht [brad at pixilla.com]
>> Sent: 18 January 2011 18:11
>> To: macports-users Users
>> Subject: Re: libpng 1.5.0 has issues and is breaking builds
>>
>> I have been having issues making png's from pdf's using ghostscript
>> which depends on libpng.
>> This is on a system that has been making png's from pdf's a hundred
>> times a day for over a year.
>>
>> This happened after upgrading ghostscript to 9.00.
>>
>> Reverting back to ghostscript 8.71_5 and we are working again.
>>
>> I don't know that libpng 1.5.0 is part of my issue but it may be.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bradley Giesbrecht
>>
>> On Jan 18, 2011, at 8:04 AM, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
>>
>>> QT3 seems to be affected as well.  I'll try to file a bug when I get
>>> a chance (it seems the build log disappeared; I guess I'll need to
>>> rebuild).
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/18/11 08:00 , macports-users-request at lists.macosforge.org  
>>> wrote:
>>>> Right, I overreacted since I hadn't looked at the actual libpng
>>>> version number in macports. It turns out that these were the only  
>>>> two
>>>> ports that failed to build... As you say, no need for a rollback as
>>>> it's still 1.4.x.
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 17, 2011, at 14:51, Russell Jones wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Srinath Vadlamani wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Current warning on libpng
>>>>>>>> website:http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> seems that many ports are not building because of another
>>>>>>>> issue dealing with incompatible png.h.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I looked at the bug reports but I don't see one that casts
>>>>>>>> this png.h as big of a problem as it may be.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any ideas on how to fix this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> gnuplot and netpbm fail to build, at least. I'm hoping for a
>>>>>> rollback, but failing that I guess I'll have to start checking
>>>>>> which ports don't build and finding/filing reports for each. I'm
>>>>>> doing a leaf-per-line build now to see how far the damage
>>>>>> extends.
>>>>
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