[Buildroot] [PATCH] libpng: bump version and add apng support (required by firefox)

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

Le Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:22:33 +0300,
Stefan Fr?berg <stefan.froberg@petroprogram.com> a ?crit :

> Not to worry, the patches are actually very small and I was surprised
> how little I had to change code.

Great!

> But the actual build process was very ... messy ... and i had spend most
> of the last four months of (and lot's of hair tearing)
> finding just the right combination of build switches to make the damn
> thing compile and actually run.

Yeah, I believe you that building Firefox is certainly not a piece of
cake. Congrats to you for working on this!

> Firefox extensions work now and It even plays YouTube videos with gnash
> plugin. Yay! :-)

Woh! I presume it only works under X.org, right?

> So the biggest files are firefox.mk, which I have commented extensively
> so that nobody has to go for this trouble again, and mozconfig file.

How complicated do you feel the Firefox version bumps will be,
considering the work you had to do for a specific version?

> I also have added optional feature that when enabled will try to make
> Firefox as privacy enhanced as possible
> (using NoScript  and AdblockPlus extension plus my own about:config
> settings)
> 
> If the yasm package patch and that little cairo option addition patch
> are both okay for you I will then send one final patch (few little
> changes needed to sqlite.mk)
> and then im ready to send the actual firefox.

I will try to catch up a bit on my Buildroot backlog today, hoping that
the 3G connection will be more cooperative than the other days.

Best regards,

Thomas
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