Re: Trouble running the cairo backend

[Nicolas Roard]

On 9/4/07, Isaiah Beerbower <public@ipaqah.com> wrote:
> On 9/4/07, Nicolas Roard <nicolas.roard@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/4/07, Isaiah Beerbower <public@ipaqah.com> wrote:
> > > I'm experiencing problems getting the cairo backend to work. I'm
> > > installing on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE with the following:
> > >
> > > ./configure --enable-graphics=cairo --with-name=cairo
> > > gmake
> > > sudo gmake install
> > >
> > > The compile seems to go smoothly, but when I try using it, I get the 
> > > following:
> > >
> > > Cairo status out of memory in copy
> > > Cairo status out of memory in copy
> > > Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped)
> > >
> > > Am I doing something wrong? Help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > David Chisnall seems to encounteer the same problem as you, and he's
> > also on FreeBSD... just to check, could you grab the backend from a
> > week ago with svn, and recompile ? Just to know if it's something I
> > introduced with my last commits or not...
>
> I've always gotten this error when using cairo, I just recently
> decided to be proactive in getting it running ... I'm using a checkout
> from stable more than a week old now.

David tried with an older version of cairo, and it does the same
indeed... so there's something different between freebsd and linux
here :-/

I don't have a fbsd install here, I'll try to see what I can do later.

-- 
Nicolas Roard