GTK2 & Cairo "Quartz" Variant

[Nathan Brazil]

This is quite exciting.  GTK apps running on top of Quartz.  Imagine  
that...

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On Mar 19, 2007, at 1:57 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Mar 19, 2007, at 02:00, Nathan Brazil wrote:
>
>> Hi.  I noticed the following lines in GTK2's Portfile:
>>
>> pre-configure {
>>     if {[variant_isset quartz]} {
>>         if { ![file exists ${prefix}/include/cairo/cairo- 
>> quartz.h] } {
>>             ui_msg "\nYou must first build cairo with the quartz  
>> variant enabled.  Please\nuninstall (or deactivate) the cairo port  
>> and reinstall by running:\n\n\"port install cairo +quartz\"\n"
>>             exit 1
>>         }
>>     }
>>
>> ...
>>
>> variant quartz { configure.args-append --enable-gdktarget=quartz }
>>
>> Does this mean if I enable the quartz variant, I can compile GTK  
>> applications w/o X11?
>
> Note that cairo 1.4.0 has been released and that the cairo portfile  
> will soon be updated -- just as soon as we can figure out how to  
> enable the quartz backend without having to disable the xlib  
> backend, which is unfortunately the current situation with 1.4.0  
> [1]. 1.4.0 has completely replaced the quartz backend with what  
> used to be called the nquartz (or "new quartz") backend. You'll  
> have to see whether this new 1.4.0 quartz is still compatible with  
> gtk2's quartz requirements.
>
>
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2007-March/010015.html
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