[cairo] Installing on RHEL5 (CentOS) along with Cairo.pm

[Charlie Garrison]

Good morning,

I'm trying to install the Perl package Cairo, so that I can use 
Graphics::Primitive. The system is CentOS v5, using port system 
(yum) for everything except Perl.

When installing the cairo/cairo-dev package, I'm getting v1.2.4. 
I'm then installing Cairo.pm from source (via cpan) and getting 
errors about missing identifiers. Googling revealed that was 
most likely due to current Cairo.pm looking for newer version of 
libcairo (or more accurately, looking for identifiers that are 
only in newer version). I removed the cairo (& related) packages 
before trying to install from source.

I have tried to install cairo-1.12.0 & pixman-0.24.4 from source 
tarball (not git). I didn't have any issues with pixman, but I 
can't `make` cairo. The abridged log output is:

Making all in .
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/cairo-1.12.0/test'
   CC     cairo_test_suite-cairo-test-constructors.o
   CCLD   cairo-test-suite
cairo_test_suite-cairo-test-runner.o: In function `_runner_print_versions':
/usr/local/src/cairo-1.12.0/test/cairo-test-runner.c:421: 
undefined reference to `pixman_version_string'
../boilerplate/.libs/libcairoboilerplate.a(cairo-boilerplate.o): 
In function `_cairo_boilerplate_image_describe':
/usr/local/src/cairo-1.12.0/boilerplate/cairo-boilerplate.c:230: 
undefined reference to `pixman_version_string'
/usr/local/src/cairo-1.12.0/src/.libs/libcairo.so: undefined 
reference to `pixman_image_composite32'
/usr/local/src/cairo-1.12.0/src/.libs/libcairo.so: undefined 
reference to `pixman_region32_equal'


I can't find anything useful from google about that 'undefined 
reference' error. Ideally, I'm hoping someone can point me to 
explicit instructions for installing current cairo on 
CentOS/RHEL v5, either via package or source. Otherwise, do any 
of you have suggestions for fixing the above compile problem?

Thanks,
Charlie

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