Re: finding png libraries in configure scripts

[Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 12:02:40PM -0600, Brook Milligan wrote:
> I am working on a package that uses png but the configure script tries to find libpng.so not libpng16.so.  Note that it does this by looking for the file directly not linking.

Well, it shouldn't do that :)

> What is the best way to handle this.
> 
> - Patch configure to look for libpng16.so?

I'd probably either patch the Makefile to use pkg-config and send that
upstream, or find some combination of MAKE_FLAGS/MAKE_ENV that
overrides its detection method.

Cheers,
 Thomas