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glaucus

cairo

TODO

Section titled “TODO”

Prepare

Section titled “Prepare”
  • Check if the musl-stacksize patch is needed from alpine

Prepare

Section titled “Prepare”
  • cairo indirectly depends on expat because of fontconfig
  • If cairo was built before harfbuzz, a rebuild of cairo is required after harfbuzz in order to build pango (LFS)
  • Build cairo against freetype-harfbuzz and not freetype alone

Configure

Section titled “Configure”
  • Disable dwrite which stands for “Microsoft’s DirectWrite”
  • glib support is not required for simple wayland compositors
  • tee is set to auto and not enabled in meson.options which contradicts NEWS as of 1.18.0
  • tee surface is mostly for debugging but is still required to build firefox and librewolf
  • xlib-xcb is disabled by default

Package

Section titled “Package”
  • glaucus removes cairo-trace and associated debugging libraries under /usr/lib/cairo