>> > (I'm confused why the preprocessor checks were not needed.)
>>
>> They are not needed because the original code in Digikam was
>> redundant. The patch simply removed the redundancy!
>
> Ok. You're dealing with a C++ dunce here, remember? I still don't grasp
> pointers, ->, this, and other C++ related weirdness.
>
> Because both David and I built digikam against libpng 1.5 and 1.4.9
> respectively, with the preprocessor check patch, apparently the checks did
> not cause any harm but are unnecessary.
>
> I guess nice try but I'm still a C++ dunce. :-)
>
> Darrell

No problem. :-)  I appreciate all the work you have been putting in on
this project; even if you don't fully grasp C/C++, you are still providing
valuable services that the project needs.

Tim