850025 - Build error: --with-system-png requested but no working libpng found

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Atanas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130218165301

Steps to reproduce:

tried to compile fennec with the following flag:
--with-system-png


Actual results:

configure: error: --with-system-png requested but no working libpng found
*** Fix above errors and then restart with               "make -f client.mk build"
make[2]: *** [configure] Error 1


Expected results:

I tried to pass --with-system-bz2; --with-system-jpeg; --with-system-zlib and checking was successful for them so I guess it should be successful for png too because I have libpng12-dev installed

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

I'm fairly sure we require a more recent version of libpng than 12 http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/configure.in#l4118

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I don't really know, Joe?

Comment 3

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

We not only require libpng version 1.5.13 or newer, we also require a system libpng compiled with APNG support. The precise problem you're finding will be listed in configure's output.

Comment 4

[Glenn Randers-Pehrson]

You have to either upgrade your libpng to 1.5.13 or later, or just don't attempt to use the system libpng.  The latter is probably the simpler approach.  Taking bug and resolving it as INVALID since it's not a moz bug.