Re: Integration of the DFB backend into current GTK+ 2.8.17 sources

[Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscali.it>]

Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:16:53PM +0300, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
>
> > On 5/26/06, Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscali.it> wrote:
> >
> > > Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > >
> > > > I support this patch requires newer directfb and cairo packages, are
> > > > these packages available somewhere?
> > >
> > > DirectFB 0.9.24 is already packaged as binary udeb, reular deb and
> > > development dev packaged.
> > > Right now, cairo is the real problem: currently its official maintainer,
> > > dave beckett is busy and i doubt he'll be able to provide us a binary
> > > deb compiled against DFB 0.9.24.
> >
> > Is this case fit for a binnmu for cairo? does it only need to be built
> > against the new DFB, or does it need some updates?
>
>
> I have not looked, but my guess is that it needs some modifications to produce
> the DFB-friendly packages. Unless cairo can be built with the dfb support and
> still work for the other targets ? 

i just mailed dave beckett, maintainer of libcairo2, to ask him if he
can provide us a DFB version of this libray.

Attilio