[tlbuild] more library fun

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Fri Jan 17 11:43:23 CET 2014


Hi Peter,

On 19 Dec 2013, at 16:15, Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de> wrote:
> 
>> * libpng: it seems that current dvipdf-x needs libpng >= 1.5, as
>> compiling with the Debian headers from 1.2.27 or so did not work.
>> I just wanted to confirm.
> 
> I think libpng 1.4 and 1.5 shoukd be OK, but libpng 1.6 still has some
> unresolved problems (with certain png images).

What is the status of libpng for TL2014? Do you expect to switch to 1.6.x
before the freeze? (If not, I had better switch mp and luatex back to 1.5.X
as well).

Best wishes,
Taco



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