On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 04:51:40AM -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > > I've updated cairo to 1.12.4 yesterday, but it causes problems on OS X > > > Lion and NetBSD (too old Xserver, I guess), so I had to revert it. > > > FTR, it also doesn't build on netbsd-5; the SHM stuff needs to be > > disabled. > > > This is not because netbsd-5's native X doesn't have the SHM > > extension, which is one of the older X extensions around; it's because > > x11-links is broken. > > Use modular (pkgsrc) Xorg instead of native? That would get around the > problem of x11-links, which was a never-ending source of problems building > packages from pkgsrc. Then maybe current version of graphics/cairo would > work right? It might, but taking that route officially would amount to abandoning support for native X on netbsd-5, which is not something I think we're ready to do. -- David A. Holland dholland%netbsd.org@localhost