Bug#638812: whitedune: FTBFS with libpng 1.5

Nobuhiro Iwamatsu iwamatsu at nigauri.org
Mon Sep 12 03:41:37 UTC 2011


Hi,

Thanks for your comments.

2011/9/5 Joerg Scheurich aka MUFTI
<rusmufti at helpdesk.bera.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I am only the "upstream" of white_dune, not the debian maintainer...
>
>> I noticed your package FTBFS by libpng 1.5.
>> I created the patch that revise this problem.
>> Could you check and apply this patch?
>
> ... but instead of using
>
>  #if PNG_LIBPNG_VER_MAJOR >= 1 && PNG_LIBPNG_VER_MINOR >= 4
>    if (setjmp(png_jmpbuf((png_ptr))))
>  #else
>    if (setjmp(png_ptr->jmpbuf))
>  #endif
>
> i think it would be better to use
>
>  /* The png_jmpbuf() macro, used in error handling, became available in
>   * libpng version 1.0.6.   If you want to be able to run your code with older
>   * versions of libpng, you must define the macro yourself (but only if it
>   * is not already defined by libpng!).
>   */
>
>   #ifndef png_jmpbuf
>   #define png_jmpbuf(png_ptr) ((png_ptr)->jmpbuf)
>   #endif
> ...
>    if (setjmp(png_jmpbuf((png_ptr))))
>
> accordingly to
>
> http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/393/

Oh, I see. Thanks!
I revise the patch of other packages.

>
> This compiles and runs at least with libpng version 1.5.4/libpng12-dev
> 1.2.44-1+squeeze1 and will be part of the next development versions of
> white_dune.
>
> BTW: the lines
>
>   #ifndef png_jmpbuf
>   #define png_jmpbuf(png_ptr) ((png_ptr)->jmpbuf)
>   #endif
>
> could be also part of a header file belonging to the libpng15-dev,
> e.g. something like "pnglegacy.h" (cc to Greg Roelofs)

Cool. But current author are Guy Eric Schalnat, Andreas Dilger, John
Bowler and Glenn Randers-Pehrson.
Could you cc to current authors?

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

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