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.
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