[tex-live] Is this a real PNG/pdfTeX error in TL2004? Or Mac OS Xonly?

Gerben Wierda Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl
Tue Nov 16 14:15:24 CET 2004


Given that this is the case. Is this a bug serious enough to warrant a 
fix before production?

G

On 16 Nov 2004, at 12:53, Akira Kakuto wrote:

> Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
>> Please run
>>
>> 	pdflatex texstart.tex
>>
>> on the contents of
>>
>> 	ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/texstart.tar.gz
>>
>> When I do that with TL2004 on Mac OS X, I get:
>>
>> [3 <./fig/pdf-example.pdf>] [4 <./fig/png-example.png*** malloc[507]:
>> error for object 0x871800: Incorrect checksum for freed object - 
>> object
>> was probably modified after being freed; break at szone_error
>
> A bug in libpng-1.2.7.
> Please try libpng-1.2.8beta4.
> -- 
> Akira Kakuto
>



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