GNU bug report logs - #25268
25.1; configure.ac libpng search error

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden <at> schemamania.org>

Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 22:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.1

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 25268-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden <at> schemamania.org>
Cc: 25268-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 25.1; configure.ac libpng search error
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:08:10 -0800

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> I believe the fix is to change line 3413 of configure.ac to read:
>
>     png_libs=`(libpng-config --ldflags) 2>&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD` || {

Thanks, I did something along those lines by installing the attached patch into 
master, and I'm boldly marking the bug report as done.

> although IMO that's not quite sufficient, because it doesn't set RPATH.

--ldflags is supposed to output any -R options needed, no? If it's not, it 
sounds like the libpng-config configuration is incorrect.

[0001-Use-libpng-config-ldflags-not-libs.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]
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