From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 31 14: 3:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1975A37B409 for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 14:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b186.otenet.gr [212.205.244.194]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4VL2to3028246; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 00:02:58 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4VL2Se9000955; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 00:02:51 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4VI8Fxk008164; Fri, 31 May 2002 21:08:15 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 21:08:14 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Chip Wiegand Cc: Dan Nelson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libpng - what's the secret to getting it installed? Message-ID: <20020531180813.GF6591@hades.hell.gr> References: <1022806931.177.22.camel@chip.wiegand.org> <20020531023836.GH45149@dan.emsphone.com> <1022847107.177.26.camel@chip.wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1022847107.177.26.camel@chip.wiegand.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-05-31 05:11 -0700, Chip Wiegand wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 19:38, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (May 30), Chip Wiegand said: > > > I don't see a port for libpng, so I downloaded libpng-1.2.3.tar.gz from > > > > /usr/ports/graphics/png > > Okay, so png and libpng are the same, and it was already installed. The > problem was the program I was installing wanted to find it in /usr/lib, > but it was actually in /usr/local/lib. A symlink took care of that > little problem. Sounds like a bug in the program. It should be able to find /usr/local/lib files, quite easily. What program was that and what failed about the detection? Giorgos, who doesn't like band-aid fixes for anything longer than very short periods of time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message