Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > On 25 September 2012 09:47, Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Even though pixman is used by core linux packages it is still a young >> project. On older distros (RHEL-5 for example) it isn't included and >> must be compiled manually. > > For me "not a standard library package on RHEL5" is a strong argument > against adding a hard dependency. (For instance, most of the compute > cluster machines here are RHEL5 and it would be pretty awkward to > deal with manually building a dependent library.)
Pixman was actually included in RHEL 5.8 which was released in February this year. Soren
