[cairo] cairo on 64-bit?

[M Joonas Pihlaja]

Hi,

On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, David Melik wrote:

> Has anyone compiled cairo on 64-bit Linux such as Slamd64?  When I do, I
> get about 23Kb completely of errors, which follow (even when trying
> Slamd64's special compiling instructions.)  When I tried to compile the
> ui 'awesome;' it said to get many files, leading to cairo....

Yes, all the time.

[snip]

> cairo-5c.h:72:28: error: nickle/builtin.h: No such file or directory

cairo-5c is a nickle binding to the cairo library and not cairo 
itself:  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo-5c/.

You should get a cairo source tarball from

  http://cairographics.org/releases

and compile that.

Joonas