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Creating/Manipulating Images with gd (Linux Journal)
Creating/Manipulating Images with gd (Linux Journal)
Posted Jan 12, 2006 13:26 UTC (Thu) by evgeny (subscriber, #774)In reply to: Creating/Manipulating Images with gd (Linux Journal) by dcoutts
Parent article: Creating/Manipulating Images with gd (Linux Journal)
> No, X11 is merely one of the many cairo backends.
I guess you're right. But all Linux distros ship it with the X11 backend, so you have no straightforward choice. Hopefully, they'll learn to make it as an optional loadable module.
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Creating/Manipulating Images with gd (Linux Journal)
Posted Jan 15, 2006 16:18 UTC (Sun) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link]
Gentoo is perfectly capable of building Cairo without the X backend.
Creating/Manipulating Images with gd (Linux Journal)
Posted Jan 15, 2006 20:04 UTC (Sun) by evgeny (subscriber, #774) [Link]
... with the obvious result that most of the apps currently using Cairo [for drawing on X] stop working. All backends must be optional, but not at the compile time - at the run time.