[cairo] Building Cairo on RH 7.3

[Robert Love]

On Dec 19, 2007 12:22 PM, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:09:05 -0600, "Robert Love" wrote:
> >    "configure error: Render headers too old.  Version 0.8 or later
> > required."
> >
> > I can't update xrender because render is too old?  What package is
> > that.
>
> The naming here is subtle. What that error message called "Render"
> would better be called "renderproto", (it lives at
> "xorg/proto/renderproto" in the source tree). It contains header files
> and protocol description. It's used by both the X server and the X
> client-side libraries.
>
> Then there is an "Xrender" client-side library package, (called
> "xorg/lib/libXrender" in the source tree). And as described above, it
> depends on the renderproto package.
>
> So in this case, libXrender was complaining that renderproto was too
> old, (and yes the names in the error messages were quite confusing).
>
> Anyway, I hope you can work that out now. We'll definitely be
> off-topic for the cairo list soon if you uncover more problems. :-)
>
> -Carl


Well, I've been building things for two days and haven't gotten closer.  I'm
giving up on this, sad to say.  I can't/won't put a whole other Xwin build
on this machine just to get some wxPython.

Thanks to all who offered assistance.
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