Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 18:18:41 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org, Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov@gmail.com> Subject: Re: git: 4ab8088077e5 - main - emulators/wine-devel: Account for bundled png library Message-ID: <3620f460-5211-ebfa-754-4403dccd323@pfeifer.com> In-Reply-To: <YYPy1E9K%2B3sbCvg6@FreeBSD.org> References: <202111041412.1A4ECdV6056979@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <YYPy1E9K%2B3sbCvg6@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 4 Nov 2021, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: >> emulators/wine-devel: Account for bundled png library >> >> Since version 6.20 Wine bundles its own copy of libpng. > That's preposterous! Why would they do that? I thought the same at first (this being the equivalent of static linking). >From my understanding the reason is that Wine now also builds PE executables (Windows format) where Linux distros and FreeBSD do not provide packages. So Wine needs to deliver those itself. Still... Gerald
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