On Dec 30, 2012, at 11:16, Federico Beffa <[email protected]> wrote:

> after some month I updated my ports and find that the newer version of the 
> program "xsane" has a bug and does not close properly (segmentation fault. 
> The bug has already been reported).
> 
> Now I could in principle revert to the previous version. However, the older 
> version does not run because during the update the library libpng has been 
> updated from version 1.4 to 1.5 and the older version of xsane has been 
> compiled against 1.4. Therefore I would have to revert to libpng14. This 
> would in turn break all programs compiled during the update against libpng15.
> 
> My question is: is there a clean way to have both library versions installed 
> at the same time?

Not really.

You could try downgrading xsane to the older working version, and rebuilding it 
against libpng 1.5.

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort

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