[Nix-dev] libpng-1.5 and ghostscript-9.x

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 06:33:03PM +0400, Yury G.  Kudryashov wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> It seems that the main reason to keep libpng-1.2 (vs. 1.5) is ghostscript
>> <9. Is there anybody who knows what are the problems with
>> ghostscript-9.x? I heard that there are some problems but I don't know
>> details.
>> 
>> If we can upgrade ghostscript to 9.x, I'm pretty sure that it will be
>> easy to resolve other issues in libpng15 branch.
> 
> There is no gnu.org ghostscript 9.x.
> There are ghostscript.com ghostscripts 9.x
Ah, I see. I found that a libpng-1.5 patch from ghostscript.com applies to 
ghostscript-8.71.1. Trying to compile.
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