<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"> </div>No idea if it has been done before. But you're definitely at the right place. How about some details on how it's failing? I don't think any versions other than 1.4.12 or 1.5.4 are really interesting. -Carl </blockquote></div> OK, I grabbed 1.4.12 and untarred, then: ./configure --prefix=$HOME make got me this:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I../pixman/src -I/home/u102k/include/freetype2 -I/home/u102k/include -I/home/u102k/include -I/home/u102k/include/libpng12 -I/usr/X11R6/include -Wall -Wsign-compare -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -g -O2 -c cairo-type1-subset.c -Wp,-MD,.deps/cairo-type1-subset.TPlo -o cairo-type1-subset.o >/dev/null 2>&1 source='cairo-xlib-surface.c' object='cairo-xlib-surface.lo' libtool=yes \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=gcc /bin/sh ../depcomp \ /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I../pixman/src -I/home/u102k/include/freetype2 -I/home/u102k/include   -I/home/u102k/include   -I/home/u102k/include/libpng12    -I/usr/X11R6/include   -Wall -Wsign-compare -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs    -g -O2 -c -o cairo-xlib-surface.lo cairo-xlib-surface.c  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I../pixman/src -I/home/u102k/include/freetype2 -I/home/u102k/include -I/home/u102k/include -I/home/u102k/include/libpng12 -I/usr/X11R6/include -Wall -Wsign-compare -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -g -O2 -c cairo-xlib-surface.c -Wp,-MD,.deps/cairo-xlib-surface.TPlo  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/cairo-xlib-surface.o /usr/include/bits/string2.h: In function `__strcpy_small': In file included from /usr/include/string.h:360,                  from cairoint.h:55,                  from cairo-xlib-surface.c:39: /usr/include/bits/string2.h:439: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arithmetic /usr/include/bits/string2.h:447: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arithmetic /usr/include/bits/string2.h:452: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arithmetic /usr/include/bits/string2.h:457: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arithmetic /usr/include/bits/string2.h:459: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arithmetic /usr/include/bits/string2.h:464: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arithmetic cairo-xlib-surface-private.h: At top level: In file included from cairo-xlib-surface.c:43: cairo-xlib-surface-private.h :91: parse error before `XTransform' cairo-xlib-surface-private.h:91: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union cairo-xlib-surface.c:83: parse error before `identity' cairo-xlib-surface.c:83: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `identity' cairo-xlib-surface.c:83: warning: braces around scalar initializer for `identity' cairo-xlib-surface.c:84: warning: braces around scalar initializer for `identity' cairo-xlib-surface.c:84: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer after `identity' cairo-xlib-surface.c:84: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer after `identity' cairo-xlib-surface.c:85: warning: braces around scalar initializer for `identity' cairo-xlib-surface.c:85: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer after `identity' cairo-xlib-surface.c:85: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer after `identity' cairo-xlib-surface.c:85: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer after `identity' cairo-xlib-surface.c:86: warning: braces around scalar initializer for `identity' cairo-xlib-surface.c:86: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer after `identity' cairo-xlib-surface.c:86: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer after `identity' cairo-xlib-surface.c:86: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer after `identity' cairo-xlib-surface.c:87: warning: data definition has no type or storage class cairo-xlib-surface.c: In function `_CAIRO_FORMAT_TO_XRENDER_FORMAT': cairo-xlib-surface.c:133: `PictStandardA1' undeclared (first use in this function) cairo-xlib-surface.c:133: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once cairo-xlib-surface.c:133: for each function it appears in.) cairo-xlib-surface.c:135: `PictStandardA8' undeclared (first use in this function) cairo-xlib-surface.c:137: `PictStandardRGB24' undeclared (first use in this function) cairo-xlib-surface.c:140: `PictStandardARGB32' undeclared (first use in this function) cairo-xlib-surface.c:142: implicit declaration of function `XRenderFindStandardFormat' cairo-xlib-surface.c:142: warning: return makes pointer from integer without a cast [many lines deleted] cairo-xlib-surface.c:3169: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type cairo-xlib-surface.c:3198: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type cairo-xlib-surface.c:3203: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make[2]: *** [cairo-xlib-surface.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt1/home/u102k/cairo-1.4.12/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt1/home/u102k/cairo-1.4.12' make: *** [all] Error 2 [u102k@dws91 cairo-1.4.12]$ BTW, if I try the later version, I keep running into a problem with all the make files having issue with -fno-strict-aliasing.  I don't think my GCC supports that.