[cairo] Compiling for Cairo development

Bill Spitzak spitzak at gmail.com
Mon May 24 06:52:13 PDT 2010


On 05/24/2010 01:10 AM, Arjen Nienhuis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You use this for pixman, cairo and the app that needs cairo:
>
> PREFIX=$HOME/whatever
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig ./autogen.sh --prefix=$PREFIX
>
> I use it to build pycairo with the latest pixman and cairo.

Thanks, that seems to work.

You still need to do "make install" but without the sudo, after 
recompiling pixman, right? Also after recompiling cairo if your test 
programs compile using pkg-config?



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