[cairo] Failing to build in image-backend-only configuration

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Thu Feb 8 15:08:27 PST 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 10:39 +0200, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> 
> You are quite right of course. :) The configure script is not though:
> 
>   --enable-png=[no/auto/yes]
>                           Enable cairo's PNG backend [default=yes]
> 
> I guess this is due to using the automagic function to detect options.
> This has the potential to confuse people, so maybe it would be worth
> the trouble to make it say "utility API" or something instead of
> "backend"...

Will fix it post 1.4 in next configure macro rewrite.

> But back to the original problem, it first looked to me that the
> slim_hidden_proto thing was autogenerated, but I guess it's not after
> all so the attached patch should fix the problem correctly. 

Committed.  Thanks.

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