[CentOS] Constant screen flicker with Firefox browser

[Johnny Hughes]

On 05/19/2015 07:31 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 05/18/2015 02:00 PM, Thomas Eriksson wrote:
>>
>> On 05/17/2015 11:34 PM, László Csontos wrote:
>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the hint.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to rebuild the original SRPM without the patch for know, but I'm
>>> getting the following error.
>>>
>>> rpmbuild --rebuild /tmp/clutter-1.14.4-12.el7.src.rpm
>>> ...
>>> checking for XIAllowTouchEvents... yes
>>> checking for XIScrollClassInfo.number... yes
>>> checking for XkbQueryExtension... yes
>>> checking for GDK_PIXBUF... no
>>> configure: error: Package requirements (gdk-pixbuf-2.0) were not met:
>>>
>>> Package libpng15 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
>>> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libpng15.pc'
>>> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>>> Package 'libpng15', required by 'GdkPixbuf', not found
>>>
>>> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>>> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GDK_PIXBUF_CFLAGS
>>> and GDK_PIXBUF_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
>>> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.o3QHFY (%build)
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I've checked that libpng15.pc is in /usr/lib/pkgconfig. Tried to set
>>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /usr/lib/pkgconfig manually, but the error is the same.
>>>
>>> Do you have any idea how to work this around?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Laszlo
>>>
>>
>> Hi Lazlo,
>>
>> To build almost any src.rpm package you will need some *-devel packages
>> installed. And if you are going to modify a build you need to install
>> the src.rpm into a build area first.
>>
>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mock?rd=Subprojects/Mock
>>
>> The spec file contains a set BuildRequires statements that will be a
>> starting point. The clutter.spec file contains these:
>>
>> BuildRequires: glib2-devel mesa-libGL-devel pkgconfig pango-devel
>> BuildRequires: cairo-gobject-devel gdk-pixbuf2-devel atk-devel
>> BuildRequires: cogl-devel >= %{cogl_version}
>> BuildRequires: gobject-introspection-devel >= 0.9.6
>> BuildRequires: gtk3-devel
>> BuildRequires: json-glib-devel >= 0.12.0
>> BuildRequires: libXcomposite-devel
>> BuildRequires: libXdamage-devel
>> BuildRequires: libXi-devel
> 
> I am happy to build this an stick it in a non standard place where
> people who have this problem can get it.
> 
> I will build the new clutter and link it to your bug now.

Here are the packages built with that patch applied, can you check and
see if this fixes your issues:

http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/c71-clutter/x86_64/Packages/

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes


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