On 10/14/2012 09:51 PM, Henrik /KaarPoSoft wrote: > On 10/14/12 20:08, Jeremy Henty wrote: >> I upgraded to cairo 1.12.4 and Firefox and Gimp crashed on startup. I >> still use Xorg 7.5 - has anyone running a more modern Xorg seen this >> problem? >> >> The crashes were completely consistent - after running Firefox/Gimp >> with the --sync option I found that stdout/stderr were exactly the >> same over 10 runs for each application (apart from the process >> identifier in the Firefox log). Logs attached for anyone interested. >> >> Google found discussion of the cairo upgrade "exposing bugs" in the NX >> server, so maybe Xorg is the real culprit here. It would be very >> interesting to if anyone else has seen this problem, and which Xorg >> they were using. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jeremy Henty > On xorg 7.7 with xorg-server 1.12.2, I was using cairo 1.10.2 and in > firefox 15.0.1 mozconfig I had: > > ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo > > This was broken, so I now compile without > > ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo > > It seems that cairo and firefox are not good friends. Maybe > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722975 > > might help you ... > > /Henrik >
We patch Cairo to aviod that bug. We started using it since 1.12.2 or so. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
