[Nix-dev] Abiword broken because of libpng

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Sergey Mironov wrote:

> Hi!
> I am trying to fix an error causing build failure in abiword:

> struct png_struct is really undefined in libpng-1.5.9 (comment says
> that applications shouldn't know the details). So I've decided to try
> older version of libpng - libpng12 and changed all-packages.nix
> 
>   abiword = callPackage ../applications/office/abiword {
>     inherit (gnome) libglade libgnomecanvas;
> 
>     libpng = libpng12; # <-- by adding this
> 
>   };
> 
> But it doesn't help! The error is same as before and it refers to
> libpng-1.5.9. What do I do wrong?
I think that it uses libpng propagated from one of its dependencies.

Could you please try 
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/xsoft/AbiWord.html ?
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Yury G. Kudryashov,
mailto: urkud at mccme.ru