In the future, it might be useful to you to avoid installing new binaries over existing ones.<br>The trick is generally to create a local directory where you will install all the new libraries you're going to build, then adjust PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH to look there first. For example:<br> <br>export LOCAL=$HOME/local<br>export PATH=$LOCAL/bin:$PATH<br>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LOCAL/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH<br>export MANPATH=$LOCAL/man:$MANPATH<br>export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$LOCAL/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH<br><br> then use --prefix=$LOCAL when configuring the build of each new libraries.<br><br>So when things go wrong, just remove the content of $LOCAL and rebuild/reinstall.<br><br>There are a few things that won't pick the new $LOCAL paths though (anything that isn't run by your uid, e.g. gdm, some Linux distributions also have Firefox startup scripts that ignore $LD_LIBRARY_PATH too), but it's a great way to test changes to low-level infrastructure like Pango / GTK / Cairo / Pixman<br> <br>Have fun<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/25 Dan Maartens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan.maartens@gmail.com">dan.maartens@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I was able to get pixman to build by including --disable-gtk when running configure. So pixman and cairo now build properly, but GTK has a bunch of compile problems. In addition, I rebooted my machine and now all the fonts (not in terminal, but everything else) are all unreadable characters (just boxes). So I think I have to give up and reinstall SuSE; not sure what else I can do.<br> <br>Thanks for the help,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Dan</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Ralph Giles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giles@ghostscript.com" target="_blank">giles@ghostscript.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Dan Maartens <<a href="mailto:dan.maartens@gmail.com" target="_blank">dan.maartens@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <br> > Thanks for the reply. Is there a configuration option to disable pixman's<br> > tests? Otherwise I'm not sure how to get around the dependency on pango.<br> <br> </div>Try removing 'test' from the SUBDIRS line in pixman/Makefile.am<br> <br> Do you somehow not have pango or glib installed? Or it is too old a version?<br> <font color="#888888"><br> -r<br> </font></blockquote></div><br> </div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> cairo mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:cairo@cairographics.org">cairo@cairographics.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo" target="_blank">http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo</a><br></blockquote></div><br>