The libpng documentation clearly explains an optional patch is necessary
for png functionality in Firefox.
"Optional patch to include animated png functionality in libpng
(required to use the system libpng in Firefox, Seamonkey, and
Thunderbird):"
If Firefox is intended to be compiled when BLFS is built the note should
be noticed and the patch installed. No problem. However, if Firefox is
compiled after building BLFS it seems the optional patch could be missed
as gtk/gdk-pixbuf/libpng were compiled without Firefox in mind. In that
case I could see a user not drilling down through gdk and seeing the note.
So, would it make sense to list the libpng patch as a dependency in the
Firefox documentation? Or perhaps just a note?
Just a thought, and perhaps the patch won't be around for long, making a
note unnecessary.
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