Re: [cp-patches] GTK and Cairo requirements

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 00:04 +0200, Ziga Mahkovec wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 16:26 -0400, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> > This patch drops the GTK 2.6 requirement back down to GTK 2.4.  So now
> > GTK >= 2.4 and Cairo >= 0.5.0 are required to build the peers and Cairo
> > Graphics2D backend.
> 
> > -     PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6 gthread-2.0 >= 2.2 libart-2.0 
> > gdk-pixbuf-2.0)
> > +     PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4 gthread-2.0 >= 2.2 libart-2.0 
> > gdk-pixbuf-2.0)
> 
> Incidentally, is libart really required?  I couldn't find any code that
> uses it and Classpath seems to build and work fine without it.  As far
> as I can see, the dependency was introduced in 1999 for the GTK peers
> but I don't think that requirement still exists.
> 
> I can send a patch that removes the requirement and documentation
> references (which should probably be applied after the release, to keep
> it safe).

That would be great, thanks.

Tom

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