From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 04:54:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D20B106564A for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:54:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao102.cox.net (eastrmmtao102.cox.net [68.230.240.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6995A8FC14 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:54:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20081215045433.WMZJ19141.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:54:33 -0500 Received: from localhost ([68.103.159.188]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id rGuY1a00344AlM802GuY9K; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:54:32 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=QGMjdLvVIdAA:10 a=pEQ3txdHAAAA:8 a=pQs5aej7AAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=YQZBWOqLdkfQ-1eTKuMA:9 a=szADKyh3RF3hcdD1UkEB9NKjChQA:4 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:54:18 -0600 To: "Coleman Kane" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1229278954.1718.10.camel@localhost> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1229278954.1718.10.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.62 (Linux) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: APNG patch for graphics/png port X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:54:34 -0000 On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:22:34 -0600, Coleman Kane wrote: > Hello, > > I recently played with building Thunderbird 3.0b1 from source (it works > pretty well, btw). I was playing with some of the options to enable > using the system versions of a number of libraries, rather than relying > upon statically linking them into the project. We should keep compile static link, because PNG folks disapprove Mozilla's APNG patch. It's what we did with Firefox 3. Cheers, Mezz > One thing that I noticed was the APNG patch from here: > * http://littlesvr.ca/apng/. > This seems to be expected by Thunderbird and is part of the latest > source tree. Mozilla has been maintaining a format spec here: > * https://wiki.mozilla.org/APNG_Specification > > Sadly the patch has lagged behind the latest releases of libpng. I > merged the patch into the latest version (1.2.33) that we use, and have > made an appropriate change to the port files of graphics/png. I think > that APNG support from libpng may be useful in other software as well. > > I am attaching the patch, to apply in /usr/ports, for anyone to test. So > far it doesn't seem to regress anything for me, and I can use > thunderbird 3 with --with-system-png=/usr/local in my .mozconfig. I'd > like to see some other testers, and get a comment from the graphics/png > maintainer. -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org