Problems with the newest wayland git

John Kåre Alsaker john.kare.alsaker at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 12:25:25 PST 2012


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:
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> John Kåre Alsaker wrote:
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>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>> 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.
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> I'm still confused. What does it do if you *don't* use that switch?
It will try to use EGL and desktop OpenGL and fall back to wl_shm and
cairo's image backend otherwise.


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