Re: kde-sunset: qt-meta-3.3.8b-r2 build failure with libpng < 1.5

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:28 PM, V. Ram <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello all and particularly kde-sunset team members:
>
> I did a fresh installation of gentoo from scratch, AMD64, with all
> stable packages and no keywords.  I setup the kde-sunset overlay as per
>
> http://www.linuxized.com/2009/11/how-to-keep-your-kde-3-5-after-its-removed-gentoos-tree-using-the-kde-sunset-overlay/
> .
>
> libpng is at 1.4.8-r1 (stable)
>
> During the emerge for kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10-r5 , the
> qt-meta-3.3.8b-r2 build failed with:
>
> kernel/qpngio.cpp:1153:48: error: png_process_data_pause was not
> declared in this scope
> make[1]: *** [.obj/release-shared-mt/qpngio.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/tmp/portage/x11-libs/qt-meta-3.3.8b-r2/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.8b/src'
> make: *** [sub-src] Error 2
> emake failed
>
> It looks like this may be due to the application of the libpng 1.5 patch
> from bug# 384953 without first checking to to see what version of libpng
> is installed.
>
> I'm not sure what I ought to do at this point.  if I try to use libpng
> ~amd64 , I get a block with gdk-pixbuf-2.24.0-r1 .  I've also read that
> revdep-rebuild with the libpng update is still problematic and that some
> applications still do not work with with libpng 1.5 .
>
> Suggestions on the best path forward?
>
> Also, independently, it looks like there are no ebuilds for hal any more
> even though the kde-sunset packages look for the hal USE flag.  I was
> never a big fan of hal, but automounting of media under KDE 3.5 is still
> nice to have, and as I understand it, without hal, that will no longer
> occur.  Any recommendations on this issue as well?
>
>
I have the old hal and polkit ebuilds, perhaps it would be in order to add
them to the overlay? Someone is working on Trinity ebuilds but I have no
idea how far along the work is. Also about hal, Trinity still hasn't moved
to udev.

Best regards,
Tiago


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