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+/* pngconf.h - machine configurable file for libpng
+ *
+ * libpng version 1.6.0beta02 - December 17, 2011
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2011 Glenn Randers-Pehrson
+ * Written by John Bowler.
+ *
+ * This code is released under the libpng license.
+ * For conditions of distribution and use, see the disclaimer
+ * and license in png.h
+ *
+ * config.h is created by and PNG_CONFIGURE_LIBPNG is set by the "configure"
+ * script.  We may need it here to get the correct configuration on things
+ * like limits.
+ */
+
+#ifndef PNGCONFIG_H
+#define PNGCONFIG_H
+
+#ifdef PNG_CONFIGURE_LIBPNG
+#  ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+#    include "config.h"
+#  endif
+#endif
+
+#endif /* PNGCONFIG_H */