[cairo] Building Cairo on a Suse 8

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 17:04 -0400, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 17:04:29 +0200, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> > 
> > ./configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-xlib-xrender=no
> 
> Hmmm... we did recently add that to disable the installation of the
> cairo-xlib-xrender.pc file.

Yeah, you asked for cairo-xlib-xrender.pc, and I hooked xlib-xrender to
the backend macro, so we get that.


> > cairo-xlib-surface.c: In function `_CAIRO_FORMAT_TO_XRENDER_FORMAT':
> > cairo-xlib-surface.c:194: `PictStandardA1' undeclared (first use in this function)
> 
> But nobody has ever done the work to actually make cairo-xlib
> compilable without the X render library headers.

Exactly.  Should be easy for someone familiar with the Xlib surface.


> > Anybody can help?
> > I cannot upgrade X in this machine (notice also the "--prefix=$HOME") switch.
> 
> All you need here is the Xrender library to get cairo to compile
> happily. You won't need to change anything in the X server at all.
> 
> And fortunately with the new, modular X sources, you'll only need a
> couple of tiny packages here, (the X render protocol module, and the X
> render library module).
> 
> -Carl


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