[cairo] Build error w/ Cairo 0.1.23

[Dave Beckett]

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:16:04 -0500
Eric Scott <scottclansman at cwazy.co.uk> wrote:

>   Hey; I've been trying to install cairo-0.1.23 from source on a
>   Redhat 
> 8.0 system w/ an Athlon chip.  I need it to run some parts of Mono 
> (http://www.mono-project.com), but it won't make.  I'm a relative
> newbie to Linux, and installing a large project like mono and it's
> dependencies is a real task for my little noggin.  NEwho, here's the
> error:
> 
> > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I/usr/local/include 
> > -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -MT 
> > cairo_xlib_surface.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/cairo_xlib_surface.Tpo -c 
> > cairo_xlib_surface.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/cairo_xlib_surface.o
> > cc1: warning: changing search order for system directory 
> > "/usr/local/include"
> > cc1: warning:   as it has already been specified as a non-system 
> > directory
> > cairo_xlib_surface.c: In function `_cairo_xlib_surface_set_matrix':
> > cairo_xlib_surface.c:290: `XTransform' undeclared (first use in this
> > 
> > function)

That's a structure from XRender

> > cairo_xlib_surface.c:290: (Each undeclared identifier is reported
> > only once
> > cairo_xlib_surface.c:290: for each function it appears in.)
> > cairo_xlib_surface.c:290: parse error before "xtransform"
> > cairo_xlib_surface.c:295: `xtransform' undeclared (first use in this
> > 
> > function)
> > cairo_xlib_surface.c: In function 
> > `_cairo_xlib_surface_composite_trapezoids':
> > cairo_xlib_surface.c:553: `PictStandardA8' undeclared (first use in 
> > this function)

ditto

> > cairo_xlib_surface.c:554: `XTrapezoid' undeclared (first use in this
> > 
> > function)
> > cairo_xlib_surface.c:554: parse error before ')' token
> > cairo_xlib_surface.c: In function `cairo_xlib_surface_create':
> > cairo_xlib_surface.c:681: `PictStandardA1' undeclared (first use in 
> > this function)
> > cairo_xlib_surface.c:684: `PictStandardA8' undeclared (first use in 
> > this function)
> > cairo_xlib_surface.c:687: `PictStandardRGB24' undeclared (first use
> > in this function)
> > cairo_xlib_surface.c:691: `PictStandardARGB32' undeclared (first use
> > 
> > in this function)
> > cairo_xlib_surface.c:700: warning: pointer/integer type mismatch in 
> > conditional
> > expression
> > make[2]: *** [cairo_xlib_surface.lo] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory 
> > `/home/eric/documents/downloads/mono/src/libgdiplus-deps/cairo-0.1.
> > 23/src' 
> >
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory 
> > `/home/eric/documents/downloads/mono/src/libgdiplus-deps/cairo-0.1.
> > 23' make: *** [all] Error 2 

So it looks like you are either missing XRender includes or have
an old version.  

I had access to such an old system and indeed Redhat8's XRender library
is too old and doesn't have those values.
 
> I don't know much about C++ and all that fun stuff, but this seems as 
> simple as a left out #include statement in the source, maybe?  Anyway,

No, the configure part of the process would have picked this up.
 
> anybody know how to get around this?  If all else fails I can  finally
> 
> do the upgrade from Redhat 8.0 to 9.0 or Fedora, as Mono has RPM 
> packages for the later RH/RH-Based distros.

I suggest you upgrade.  Fedora Core 2 is about 2 years newer

Dave