[cairo] cairo-1.6.4 build failing on solaris-10....help needed

[Hung Nguyen Vu]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Malay HALDER <
malay.halder at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:

>  first of all thanks for your suggestion.
>
> it worked that way...
>
Great.


> but i think that is a way of compromise.How else can i check wheather its a
> solaris
> error or error in the code .
>
In short, It is a bug of cairo.

As far as I know, cairo is not widely used in Solaris. The bug will be there
until someone fixes it.
The only "official" source that you can get an out-of-date binary or source
code that has been tested under Solaris
is sunfreeware.com.

P/S: I added cairo at cairographics.org to CC:.


>
> regards
> malay
>
>
> Hung Nguyen Vu wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Malay HALDER <
> malay.halder at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
>
> /users/toolsrd/ws/si_ctoolrd/gtk/production/sources/cairo-1.6.4/src/cairo-ps-surface.c:
> *In function '_cairo_ps_surface_emit_header':*
> /users/toolsrd/ws/si_ctoolrd/gtk/production/sources/cairo-1.6.4/src/cairo-ps-surface.c:110:
> *error: too few arguments to function 'ctime_r'
> gmake[3]: *** [libcairo_la-cairo-ps-surface.lo] Error 1*
>
> If you don't use ps ( PostScript), you can disable it with.
>
> make clean; ./configure --enable-ps=no; make
>
> Possibly, this is a bug that has not been tested. The funtion ctime_r is
> different under Solaris[1:.
> ATM, I don't have Solaris to verify the bug nor fix it it is likely to be.
>
> [1] http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-bugs/199812/msg00110.html
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Nguyen Hung Vu ( Nguyễn Vũ Hưng )
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>


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Nguyen Hung Vu ( Nguyễn Vũ Hưng )
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