Re: Integration of the DFB backend into current GTK+ 2.8.17 sources
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:58:00PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> 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.
Current version of libcairo2 in unstable is 1.0.4, but the gtk-dfb pahge you
mentioned says :
Next, get cairo >= 1.1.6 from and build it with the DFB backend enabled:
And indeed, i didn't find any DFB related stuff in the current cairo version
in unstable.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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