[sane-devel] [iscan] New release available

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

upscope <upscope at nwi.net> writes:

> On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 09:40:34 AM Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> [snip release announcement]
>
> Just a quick question. Who is going to support the software now.  I
> called Epson Support the other day because a failure of
> iscan-2.28.1-3.ltdl7.x86_64.rpm where is compiled againt libpng.
>
> Error:
> libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.2.31
> libpng warning: Application  is  running with png.c from libpng-1.4.8
> libpng warning: Incompatible libpng version in application and library
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
>   what():  std::bad_alloc
> Aborted

Please see http://download.ebz.epson.net/faq/linux/faq_ls_00003.html.
You need a sufficiently old PNG library for PNG support to work.

As to the support question, your local Epson Support is your best bet at
the moment (considering the absence of any contact information on the
download pages themselves).

Hope this helps,
-- 
Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2           FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION
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