Add patches (the diff between the latest release and what you need) to our cairo build.
Laca On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 23:39 +0800, Alfred Peng wrote: > The Cairo library is also under development, and the version Firefox > depends on is newer than the latest released one. So it's just a > development cycle problem. At last, there will be only one version of > cairo in our system. :-) > > Thanks, > > -Alfred > > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > If you're doing this for the Firefox being shipped in Solaris, the only > > correct answer is to work with the GNOME team to have them deliver the > > version of Cairo you need so that there is only one version to worry > > about. > > > > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > > > Alfred Peng wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I've got a library linking question. Hope that you can give me > >> some suggestion. > >> > >> Firefox needs the latest cairo library to support its new layout > >> development. However, the cairo library bundled in Solaris11/Linux > >> currently is old. So Firefox makes its own cairo snapshot during the > >> feature development. A cairo static library(a.a for later reference) > >> is generated from the source code and linked to a dynamic > >> library(b.so for later reference). At the same time, gtk2 library > >> depends on the system cairo library(c.so) and c.so will be linked to > >> b.so also. I know it's a little mess :-[ > >> > >> On ubuntu with gcc, b.so will call the functions in library a.a > >> and works well. But on Solaris11 with our sunCC(CC: Sun C++ 5.8 > >> 2005/10/13), b.so will call the functions in library c.so and it > >> crashes. > >> > >> Do we have any option to make b.so call the functions in a.a > >> instead of c.so on Solaris 11? Or it depends on the linking order of > >> the object files and libraries? > >> > >> I don't know whether I've made myself clear about this problem. If > >> not, please let me know. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> -Alfred > >> _______________________________________________ > >> tools-linking mailing list > >> tools-linking at opensolaris.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > tools-linking mailing list > tools-linking at opensolaris.org
