On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Randy McMurchy <[email protected]> wrote: > > When would one ever build stand-alone Firefox without cairo being > on the system?
You probably wouldn't on linux, but that doesn't mean that firefox cannot include its own copy of cairo, which it does. The mozilla developers have a tuned cairo that's shipped internally. It will use this cairo for graphics rendering unless you tell it you want to use the cairo (and pixman) that are on your system. When it wants to use widgets (all the menus/buttons/etc.) it indeed uses gtk+. When mozilla calls into cairo, it will use your system cairo only if you told it to. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
