[cairo] Finding libXrender

[Bill Spitzak]

I have done the patch again with the test reversed, and confirmed that it 
works on my system that does not have the Xrender package but does have the 
headers and libraries. I will redo this against the newest Cairo and repost 
the patch.

On Thursday 18 March 2004 10:48 am, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2003, Bill Spitzak wrote:
>  > On Monday 15 December 2003 11:26 am, Carl Worth wrote:
>  > > The PKG_CHECK_MODULES does accept action-if-found and
>  > > action-if-not-found arguments just like AC_CHECK_HEADER. Would your
>  > > patch work if it the nesting of these two macros were just turned
>  > > inside-out?
>  >
>  > Yes it should work that way, [...]
>
> Bill,
>
> In sifting through pending cairo submissions, I found this end of a
> thread from last December.
>
> You had a patch which would help cairo compile with an older Xrender
> library provided without a .pc file. The email with the patch can be
> seen:
>
> http://cairographics.org/pipermail/cairo/2003-December/000913.html
>
> (Ugh. That page has a base64-encoded version. I can repost the patch
> if anyone needs it.)
>
> I don't want to add the patch as is, since it potentially gives
> preference to old versions of Xrender. If someone can fix it as
> described above and test it, then I would be glad to commit it, (or,
> hand out commit access as necessary).
>
> -Carl

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