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

[Adrian Johnson]

On 31/03/12 11:03, Charlie Garrison wrote:
> 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:

I don't have any suggestions for fixing the compile errors. But you
don't need to build the test suite to install cairo. You can just do

cd src
make install

to install the library.

> 
> 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
>