libcairo.la not found make errors in several sources

dive · 10-14-2008, 08:34 AM

A few sources I've built seem to be looking for

usr/lib/pkgconfig/src/libcairo.la

as a subdirectory of the source folder rather than

/usr/lib/pkgconfig/src/libcairo.la

or

/usr/lib/libcairo.la

where it actually exists. My libcairo is a custom built one with glitz enabled but I can't see why other sources are looking and not finding it in say /usr/lib/

Anyone got some clues how to fix this? I can't see any .pc associated with it, nor anything else that might give a clue.

keefaz · 10-14-2008, 08:45 AM

Usually configure script searches for header files, not lib files (?)
How do you get these cairo errors ?

dive · 10-14-2008, 10:28 AM

During the 'make' of Abiword from svn and cairo-dock

Code:

../doltlibtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++  -g -O2 -Wall -Wextra -Wsign-compare
 -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-noreturn -Wunused 
-Wpointer-arith -Wshadow   -o libabiword-2.7.la -rpath /usr/local/lib -pthread 
..//usr/lib/pkgconfig/src/libcairo.la -Wl,--export-dynamic -lfribidi -lgthread-2.0 
-lrt -lwv -lgsf-1 -lpng -lm -lgnomeprintui-2-2 -lgnomeprint-2-2 -lgnomecanvas-2 
-lxml2 -lart_lgpl_2 -lenchant -lgucharmap -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lXft 
-lXrender -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lz -lX11 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 
-lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl 
-lglib-2.0   --no-undefined -avoid-version -export-dynamic libabiword_2_7_la-
abi_ver.lo libabiword_2_7_la-libabiword.lo ../goffice-bits/libgoffice.la  
plugins/libplugins.la text/fmt/xp/libxp.la text/ptbl/xp/libxp.la wp/ap/gtk
/libgtk.la wp/ap/xp/libxp.la wp/impexp/gtk/libgtk.la wp/impexp/xp/libxp.la af/xap
/gtk/libgtk.la af/xap/xp/libxp.la af/gr/gtk/libgtk.la af/gr/xp/libxp.la af/util
/unix/libunix.la af/util/xp/libxp.la af/ev/gtk/libgtk.la af/ev/xp/libxp.la text/fmt
/gtk/libgtk.la 
libtool: link: cannot find the library `..//usr/lib/pkgconfig/src/libcairo.la' or 
unhandled argument `..//usr/lib/pkgconfig/src/libcairo.la'
make[3]: *** [libabiword-2.7.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/dive/downloads/abi/abiword/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dive/downloads/abi/abiword/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dive/downloads/abi/abiword'
make: *** [all] Error 2

dive · 10-14-2008, 10:48 AM

Ok it seems to be that my custom compile of cairo did not install the proper .pc files:

/usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo-ft.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo-pdf.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo-png.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo-ps.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo-svg.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo-xlib-xrender.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo-xlib.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc

At least the last one is missing. Not sure how to create those though. I always assumed that the install would create or run the commands to create them.

keefaz · 10-14-2008, 12:09 PM

Well, here is the content of the /usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc on my Slackware 12.1 system:

Code:

prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include

Name: cairo
Description: Multi-platform 2D graphics library
Version: 1.4.14

Requires.private: freetype2 >= 8.0.2 fontconfig libpng12 xrender >= 0.6 x11 
Libs: -L${libdir} -lcairo
Libs.private: -lz -lz -lm
Cflags: -I${includedir}/cairo

dive · 10-14-2008, 04:57 PM

Yeah I've gone back to stock 1.4.14 now - the glitz backend is too buggy to use in cairo-dock anyway, which is the only reason I need a glitz enabled cairo.

jong357 · 10-14-2008, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dive

Yeah I've gone back to stock 1.4.14 now - the glitz backend is too buggy to use in cairo-dock anyway, which is the only reason I need a glitz enabled cairo.

You can still run cairo-dock without a glitz enabled cairo. It just needs glitz on the system. not a cairo enabled glitz.

But yea, it is buggy, cairo-glitz that is.