[Bf-committers] lib/linux64 and libpng-1.5

[Ejner Fergo]

Ah ok, I see. Thanks for the explanation, Sergey!


On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> No, this can not be done. In contrast with libraries for Windows/OSX
> pre-compiled libraries for Linux are supposed to be used on older LInuxes
> where compiling dependencies are really hard (like current Debian stable).
> If pre-compiled libraries would be compiled against newer versions of their
> dependencies it'll make that libraries useless for their original purpose.
>
> On newer Linux distributives it's really easy to compile all the
> dependencies or even use dependencies from repository. So please go ahead
> and compile OIIO for your particular distributive.
>
> P.S. There's a plan to get rid of pre-compiled Linux libraries as soon as
> Debian Wheezy is released as stable. After this in all supporting
> distributives all the dependencies would be much easier compilable than
> continuing maintaining pre-compiled libraries from our side.
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Ejner Fergo <ejnersan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hola,
>>
>> Spend some time fighting with PNG textures not working in Cycles using
>> Blender-SVN under Fedora 17, getting this error:
>>
>> libpng warning: Application built with libpng-1.2.27 but running with
>> 1.5.10
>>
>> and think I know the problem now. Found this update from DingTo:
>>
>> http://projects.blender.org/scm/viewvc.php/trunk/lib/win64/openimageio/?root=bf-blender&pathrev=46158
>>
>> So I guess the libraries in lib/linux64 is not updated to
>> libpng-1.5.10 ? Can this be done, please? Thanks!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Ejner
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