[cairo] cairo release 1.12.4 now available

Roderick Johnstone rmj at ast.cam.ac.uk
Fri Jan 11 03:40:42 PST 2013


On 21/12/12 13:43, Klaus Stengel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 10.12.2012 18:05, Uli Schlachter wrote:
>> On 10.12.2012 13:57, Klaus Stengel wrote:
>>> The main problem seems to be the function _render_operator() in
>>> cairo-xlib-render.c, which just translates any cairo operator to the
>>> corresponding XRender code without any checks. This function is used in
>>> various calls to XRender functions.
>> [...]
>>
>> This analysis seems correct.
>
> so in order to fix this properly, it would be necessary to do the
> rendering in libcairo itself in case an operator ist not supported,
> probably using the software implementation from libpixman?
>
>> Let's see when someone comes around and fixes this.
>
> It probably makes sense to file an entry in the bugtracker then; At
> least I didn't find anything mentioning that problem specifically yet.

I couldn't see an entry relating to this yet, so I added one at:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59173
for what looks the same problem we are having with the NX on Fedora 18 
(beta).

Roderick Johnstone





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