The following reply was made to PR pkg/34663; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
To: srcshelton@gmail.com
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/34663: cairo is broken on non-x86 platforms
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:49:56 +0100

 On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:15:01PM +0000, srcshelton@gmail.com wrote:
 > >Synopsis:       cairo is broken on non-x86 platforms
 
 That is not completely true. It works fine on my Powermac under Mac OS X.
 My guess is that it is broken on displays certain byte orders.
 
 Can you perhaps try running a GTK+ application on either the IRIX
 or a Solaris/SPARC using a i386 system as the X11 server?
 
 	Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/