[Bug 164640] Re: Build Firefox 3 against a subpixel-patched cairo

[Matvey Kozhev]

There is another way to achieve this: build Firefox with --enable-
system-cairo, but apply a patch to the system libcairo 1.4 to export
cairo_surface_show_page - the only reason why Firefox depends on 1.5,
because this function was only exported in 1.5.

For a number of reasons which I hold to be obvious, using an external
Cairo is preferable. Attached is a debdiff that adds the export. It is
intended to be applied to version 1.4.10-1ubuntu4.1.

I built Firefox 3.0b2pre with a patched Cairo on my home machine, and it
builds and runs correctly.

** Attachment added: "libcairo_1.4.10-1ubuntu5.debdiff"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10759490/libcairo_1.4.10-1ubuntu5.debdiff

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Build Firefox 3 against a subpixel-patched cairo
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164640
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