Problems with the newest wayland git

[Bill Spitzak]

John Kåre Alsaker wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can somebody explain why compiling weston with the switch
>> "--with-cairo-glesv2" would perhaps fix the weston clients (I am not at my
>> machine to try this so I don't know if it does). Doesn't that switch *make*
>> it use EGL rather than having cairo write to the image buffer?

> It will try to use EGL and GLESv2 if that exists on the system and
> fall back to wl_shm and cairo's image backend otherwise.

I'm still confused. What does it do if you *don't* use that switch?