what's the problem with system cairo ?

[Matúš Kukan]

On 17 November 2012 23:04, Matúš Kukan <matus.kukan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been gbuildizing cairo but then realized it's used only for linux
> [1], as also cairo/README says.
> Though there are many platform conditionals in various cairo related
> makefiles. Maybe it was used more in the past ?
>
> So can't we just use system cairo and/or pixman?
> Anyone could shed some light on this ?

Anyway, this is what I've done so far:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/1144

HTH,
Matus