[IcedTea6 1.10] RFC: Add support for libpng 1.5

[Xerxes Rånby]

On 2011-03-29 16:30, Xerxes Rånby wrote:
> On 2011-03-29 16:12, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> The attached patch adds support for libpng 1.5 and was contributed
>> by Alexis Ballier via the Gentoo bug database:
>>
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356743
>>
>> The patch is already on HEAD and I'd like to add it to the 1.10
>> branch.  It still compiles fine against libpng 1.4.5.
>>
>> Ok for 1.10?
>>
>> 2011-03-28  Andrew John Hughes  <ahughes at redhat.com>
>> 	Patch contributed by: Alexis Ballier <aballier at gentoo.org>
>>
>> 	* Makefile.am: Add patch.
>> 	* THANKYOU: List Alexis.
>> 	* NEWS: Updated.
>> 	* patches/g356743-libpng-1.5.patch:
>> 	Patch to build against libpng 1.5.
>>
> Please let us do some testing before pushing this to the 1.10 branch.
> Some GNU/Linux systems are still using fairly old versions of libpng like 1.2.42 that currently builds IcedTea6-1.10 fine.
> it would be headache to introduce regressions on the branch.
>
> What are the lowest version of libpng that we want to support?
The icedtea6-jaunty-ia32 builder uses libpng 1.2.27, if it manages to build on HEAD then I am in favour of pushing this patch to the IcedTea6-1.10 branch.

Cheers
Xerxes