Subject: Re: bug#11797: trunk does not build on NetBSD

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:05:24 -0400

"Herbert J. Skuhra" wrote:

> 1. I have to modify the configure script so that it checks for -lpng15
> instead of -lpng

Not the main part of your report of course, but really?
There's no "libpng" on NetBSD, only "libpng15"?
Isn't that a PITA for compiling a bunch of software, not just Emacs?
You aren't just missing the equivalent of a "libpng-devel" package that
provides the unversioned .so?