png 1.6.25 的 plotutils 编译错误：取消引用指向不完整类型的指针

Question

On my RedHat 7 Linux machine (gcc 4.8.3), I have png-dev (1.6.25) installed.
Trying to build the plotutils-2.6 (I checked it was last updated 2009). ./configure successuful. Problem at make step with error:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I./../include -DLIBPLOT -O2 -MT z_write.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/z_write.Tpo -c z_write.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/z_write.o
In file included from /usr/local/include/pngconf.h:50:0,
                 from /usr/local/include/png.h:371,
                 from z_write.c:43:
z_write.c: In function '_pl_z_maybe_output_image':
z_write.c:167:22: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
   if (setjmp (png_ptr->jmpbuf))
                      ^
z_write.c: In function '_our_error_fn_stdio':
z_write.c:447:19: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
   longjmp (png_ptr->jmpbuf, 1);
                   ^

Question number 1: Is the plotutils library still actively maintained? If not, is there an alternative for C++ programmers?

Do any of you encountered this problem before and fixed it?

Answer 1

I figured out the source of the problem. The answer is provided in: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/src/libpng-1.2.x-to-1.4.x-summary.txt .

Quote from the link

d. Direct access to png_ptr->jmpbuf has been deprecated since libpng
      version 1.0.6, and libpng now generates a warning about it.

      To avoid such warnings, change
        setjmp(png_ptr->jmpbuf)
      to
        setjmp(png_jmpbuf(png_ptr))

The libplot/z_write.c file in the plotutils library needs to be updated:

at line 167:

/*if (setjmp (png_ptr->jmpbuf)) */
if (setjmp (png_jmpbuf(png_ptr)))

line 448:

/*longjmp (png_ptr->jmpbuf, 1); Kemin changed this*/
longjmp(png_jmpbuf(png_ptr), 1);

These two fixes made the compiler happy. If you want the plotutils to work with png 1.2 or earlier without code-editing, you can use conditional compilation based on the version of the png library. The question remains, is the plotutils actively maintained?