[Xquartz-dev] Re: cairo + fat binaries on osx

[Vladimir Vukicevic]

Done -- just pushed out to both 1.4.x and trunk.

    - Vlad

On Mar 13, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> Could you throw it in both 1.4 stable and the devel branch?  And  
> feel free to put my name on it.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
>
> On Mar 13, 2008, at 17:14, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
>
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> On Mar 13, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I noticed you're working on the quartz backend for cairo.  I'm  
>>> maintaining X11 for Apple and am looking into including the X11  
>>> cairo backend in the next community release of X11.
>>
>> Sounds great!
>>
>>>
>>> As it is, cairo has compile-time tests for endianness which are  
>>> based on the values set by configure.  This makes fat binaries  
>>> built via '-arch i386 -arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch x86_64' broken  
>>> for the "other" architecture family.
>>>
>>> I'm using the following patch to address this, but I'd like to  
>>> pass it to you first to make sure there isn't some adverse effect  
>>> wrt the quartz backend that I don't see.
>>>
>>> If it looks fine to you, could you please commit it?
>>
>> Looks fine here, I'll push it upstream.  Are you interested in  
>> getting it into the 1.4 stable branch, or the devel branch?  (Which  
>> will become 1.6 very soon.)  (Also, are you OK with me putting your  
>> name/email address in the git commit header?)
>>
>> (At some point also I'd like to get Cairo building into a proper  
>> Framework, though I haven't been able to find any docs on building  
>> a Framework from the command line -- any pointers?  I admittedly  
>> haven't searched very hard, though.)
>>
>>   - Vlad
>>
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