[cairo] Cairo error: mandatory image surface backend feature could not be enabled

[Bill Spitzak]

On Aug 21, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Arjen Nienhuis wrote:

> My problem was that --prefix and $PKG_CONFIG_PATH did not match.
>
> Try this:
>
> PREFIX=/foo
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig ./autogen.sh --prefix=$PREFIX
>
> For both pixman and cairo

I know this has been discussed before, but can this please get fixed  
in cairo/pixman's configure? I.e make it act like PKG_CONFIG_PATH is  
exactly as shown above.

I certainly ran into it as well. It is fairly easy to figure out  
PREFIX but you immediately run into this problem and nobody is going  
to figure it out unless they see some post like this. Note that unless  
you use PREFIX you cannot experiment with changing cairo unless you  
are willing to write over the system's version of Cairo, and you need  
su to do that.

I also cannot see any sense with the current behavior. If you compile/ 
install pixman with PREFIX, it puts the pkg files there even though  
PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. And if you compile cairo with PREFIX but  
no PGK_CONFIG_PATH, if it works you will end up using a different  
pkgconfig file than the library and header files for pixman! That  
certainly is wrong!