25 Jan 2006

I recompile libpng since the package supplied with Slackware
gives problems when compiling some software:
It may just be that the libs are overstripped since some programs,
such as fblogo, need the re-compiled libpng *.so libs in order
to compile, but fblogo runs with the standard Slackware libs.
(Similar case with ORBit-libs).

I use a different source-tarball than slackware, which uses the
pre-configured version.

If you don't like over-writing your Slackware packages, configure
with --prefix=/usr/local.
Or, just recompile libpng, copy to some place convenient and pass
the LD_LIBRARY_PATH pointing to these when configuring 
and/or compiling:

LD_LIBARY_PATH=/pat/to/libpng ./configure
LD_LIBARY_PATH=/pat/to/libpng make