Window manager 'awesome' fails to load with cairo_xcb_surface_create error.

[Jason Pierce]

As discovered by Ken, attempting to login to the "awesome" window manager in VL STD 32bit RC4.2 and in 64bit Beta1 fails due to undefined symbol. This corresponds in 64bit to package awesome-3.4.9-x86_64-3vl70.

~~/.xsession-errors message: {{{ awesome: symbol lookup error: awesome: undefined symbol: cairo_xcb_surface_create }}}

[Former user]

rebuild cairo with --enable-xcb will fix that

[VectorLinux Core]

Fix reported in 32bit with cairo-1.10.2-i586-7vl70. cairo needed re-compiled with xcb flag.

Awaiting fix on 64bit.

[VectorLinux Core]

Won't be fixed for final release of 7.0 due to potential conflicts in other cairo-dependent packages.

Ticket opened for vl-future. https://bitbucket.org/VLCore/vl-future/issue/3/xcb-backend-for-cairo#comment-796171

[VectorLinux Core]

Here's some detail on cairo w/ xcb support.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465759#c23

Also: Setting this back to "open" because "on hold" seem to falsely decrease the bug count.

[VectorLinux Core]

See the ticket in vl-future for any updates on this topic.