On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 08:36:09AM +0200, thorsten wrote: > > What really puzzles me is why some firefox issues seem to affect > > very few people. On one of my older systems I had to change > > _something_ in the last couple of months when I upgraded firefox (I > > no longer remember the details, but I think it was a specific > > version of gcc which caused it) and found one open firefox bug > > showing the exact problem. But a lot of people build firefox on, or > > for, old systems using i686 or x86_64 (e.g. distros do it!) and > > nobody else had seen the problem. > > For what it is worth, I think my crashes maybe/could/are likely > connected to the xcb backend of cairo. I used --enable-xlib-xcb with > cairo and the patch which fixes it for me is patching code for xcb. > > So perhaps those two of you which also have crashes did enable xcb also? > > regards > > thorsten
That sounds very possible - my own cairo builds do not use that switch (I use icewm and fluxbox, I'm not sure which bleeding-edge window managers require this switch). ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
