[bug#69495] [PATCH 0/2] gnu: cairo: Update to 1.18.0.

[Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>]

Am Mittwoch, dem 27.03.2024 um 05:08 +0000 schrieb John Kehayias:
> Hello,
> 
> Arg, I don't know if this ever was actually sent to the gnome-team!
> Also
> adding Efraim due to a librsvg issue (below).
> 
> Apologies if it didn't go through originally (or if you are getting
> it
> again).
> 
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 01:50 AM, John Kehayias wrote:
> 
> > Hi gnome-team and guix,
> > 
> > I'm cc'ing the gnome-team as this would normally fall to them, but
> > with their
> > pending merge and the builds upcoming on mesa-updates (libdrm,
> > which cairo
> > depends on), I think this will go on mesa-updates. The patch is
> > based on
> > master, not gnome-team. Still, thought it would be good to have a
> > review as
> > this was non-trivial. Thanks to lilyp on #guix for tips!
> > 
> > Please see the patches to update cairo to the new release (after
> > many years!)
> > of 1.18.0. An update to python-pycairo was needed first. The end
> > result is
> > that our cairo package is quite a bit simpler as the defaults
> > include the tee
> > backend that we had enabled before. I removed all the old configure
> > flags and
> > propagated-inputs which were commented out and now obsolete.
> > 
> > The docs require gtk-doc which depends on cairo. To break the cycle
> > cairo is
> > hidden (but exported) and built without docs, with the public
> > cairo-with-docs
> > including them. I followed what was done for glib with a similar
> > issue.
> > 
> > I did not try too much enable tests, which may have been revamped?
> > The quick
> > look I took in the source docs suggested that it is very system
> > dependent
> > (reference images) though does run on their GitLab CI. When
> > enabling
> > test/ps2png.p/ps2png.c.o fails to build as it can't find cairo.h.
> > Perhaps it
> > needs to build tests in a phase after cairo has built and set in a
> > way to find
> > this just build version?
> > 
> > Anyway, this built locally for me on x86_64. I built up to icecat,
> > which needs
> > the tee backend we previously manually enabled, and it built and
> > ran
> > successfully.
> > 
> > Let me know of any issues or changes wanted or if someone wants to
> > take this
> > on a different branch. I think it makes sense on mesa-updates due
> > to the
> > libdrm update I will take there.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > John
> > 
> > 
> > John Kehayias (2):
> >   gnu: python-pycairo: Update to 1.26.0.
> >   gnu: cairo: Update to 1.18.0.
> > 
> >  gnu/local.mk                                  |  2 -
> >  gnu/packages/gtk.scm                          | 85 ++++++++++-----
> > ----
> >  .../patches/cairo-CVE-2018-19876.patch        | 37 --------
> >  .../patches/cairo-CVE-2020-35492.patch        | 49 -----------
> >  4 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 126 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/cairo-CVE-2018-19876.patch
> >  delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/cairo-CVE-2020-35492.patch
> > 
> > 
> > base-commit: b386c11e7804e0b577411d930b60f1e0a4a0382c
> > prerequisite-patch-id: 2889be19c4a046760f2f608cefff987b11b65a31
> > --
> > 2.41.0
> 
> I've applied this series locally and haven't run into issues in
> building (and trying a few random packages). Happy to take feedback
> before I push this to mesa-updates, and even then will be some time
> before the branch will be built to be merged to master. Other updates
> include mesa, sdl2, and vulkan.
I think mesa-updates would be the right place – gnome-team is quite
close to merge, so we can't do a world rebuild there right now.


Cheers