Re: configure message?

On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:08:12 -0400, Roger <[email protected]> wrote:

> It sounds like they need to upgrade their present libpng from  
> libpng-1.2.46 to
> libpng-1.4.* though.
>
> (No, the mingw32 is something ming windows related. Cygwin related??)

Not Cygwin -- MinGW's the native GNU compiler for Windows (what I use for  
Dillo-Win32).  Fedora ships MinGW -- and some popular libraries compiled  
for it -- to allow cross-compiling Windows software from Linux.

> On Gentoo, libpng-1.4.8 is marked stable.  And the old version here on  
> Gentoo is
> libpng-1.2.44 & libpng-1.2.45.  (libpng-1.4.7 is masked and libpng-1.4.5  
> is the
> old stable version here.)

I don't know about Fedora, since they're typically more bleeding edge, but  
RHEL usually lags a couple major versions behind on most packages, and  
backports critical security and other fixes to the old version as  
necessary.  It's an extremely expensive and time-consuming system, but  
it's the only way they can ensure stability when the prevailing culture is  
against backwards compatibility and stable API's.  At least Red Hat's big  
enough they can get away with it.

~Benjamin