Problems compiling Cairo

dive · 10-04-2008, 09:55 AM

I am trying to compile cairo but I get a make error:

Code:

*** Warning: Linking the shared library libcairo.la against the
*** static library ..//usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpixman-1-so.a is not portable!

followed by:

Code:

gcc: ..//usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpixman-1-so.a: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [libcairo.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/cairo-1.8.0-src-1/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/cairo-1.8.0-src-1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/cairo-1.8.0-src-1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I have tried --disable-static and --disable-shared but no change.

Any ideas where to go from here? I can not find any info on libpixman-1-so.a anywhere.

bathory · 10-04-2008, 11:43 AM

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Any ideas where to go from here? I can not find any info on libpixman-1-so.a anywhere.

You cannot find it because it doesn't exist. It should be libpixman-1.la and it should be located in /usr/lib.
Did you used any particular option in your ./configure script?

dive · 10-04-2008, 01:04 PM

Solved now thanks. I had to mkdir usr/lib/pkconfig in the src directory, move a few files about, apply some patches and copy /usr/lib/libpixman-1.a as libpixman-1-so.a.

All this was to compile cairo with glitz support to try out cairo-dock's hardware rendering. Upshot after several hours playing about compiling is that glitz support needs much more work to iron out the bugs. Live and learn eh?