Hello Mark, On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:44:59AM +0000, Mark Baker wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:12:26PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ env LANG=C chimera2 > > Cache resource not found. Not caching. > > libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.0.6 > > or earlier > > libpng warning: Application is running with png.c from libpng-1.0.18 > > libpng error: The png struct allocated by the application for reading > > is too small. > > I notice you're using revision -3.3, which is the latest one in debian > stable. Have you tried the package from unstable (-5)? I think that > one should work; I think it depends on an even later version of libpng than > you have installed.
I rebuild the sid version on Sarge without problems and now chimear
works on several pages where it used to crash badly with the above
error (including www.debian.org)
> I'm not sure what happened to the version you have; I'm sure it used
> to work. I think the libpng upstream changed the ABI without changing
> the soname, and therefore with the debian maintainer didn't change the
> package name.
Well, for the sarge version it required libpng2-dev, which freed > 20
MB of devel libraries on my system (e.g., for kde and such) while the
sid version requires libpng12-dev. Since a trivial recompile (I tried
this first) did not help, I think there is some incompatibility
between libpng12-dev and the libpng library. At least on amd64 stock
stable chimera is a little more useless right now.
If you can nail down the problem and convince Joey that a minimal
modified chimera could enter Sarge at the next dot-release, fine,
otherwise you can close this bug (with the proper versioning, of
course).
Thanks for maintaining chimera2, it is probably the oldest "unchanged"
browser for Debian, a good "way-back" machine. Unfortunately I just
had to remove the upstream URL form my list of current and previous
web browsers[1], only a source download location remaind :-((
Greetings
Helge
[1] www.helgefjell.de/browser
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