Problems w/ libpng 1.2.18 w/ links

[Karel Kulhavy]

lfs-dev-bounces at linuxfromscratch.org wrote on 02/19/2008 12:21:22 PM:

> I was playing w/ links in the linux framebuffer, and I came across this 
error
> 
> Error when loading compiled-in font: png_do_rgb_to_gray found nongray 
pixel.
> libpng error: png_do_rgb_to_gray found nongray pixel.

See http://links.twibright.com/download.php we now ship the patch in the 
Links tarball.
If you follow our current official install instructions at that page, you 
won't get this
problem anymore. It's caused by a bug in the libpng.

CL<
> 
> a bit of googling pulled up this link
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181318
> 
> There is a patch, located at
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=124398&action=view (found
> within the bugreport).
> 
> I also noticed that  there is a libpng 1.2.25 on the download site.
> 
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