[cairo] Help! building on Solaris

[Mathew Yeates]

same result for 1.0.4


Carl Worth wrote:
> On Fri, 05 May 2006 13:05:25 -0700, Mathew Yeates wrote:
>
>   
>> I keep getting ld: fatal: relocation error: R_386_GOTOFF: file 
>> .libs/cairo.o: symbol cairo_pattern_nil: relocation must bind
>> locally.
>>     
>
> I have no idea what that error message might mean. I don't see
> anything obviously wrong with the definition of cairo_pattern_nil.
>
>   
>> I was able to build on Solaris2.9 yesterday after removing 2 lines from 
>> pixman-remap.h (recommended at
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2005-November/005657.html). 
>> But this doesnt work on Solaris2.10. So I checked out cairo-branch-1.0. 
>> Still ..... no go.
>>     
>
> The mail message above has some stale information in it.
>
> The easiest way to avoid the pixman-remap.h bug is to simply grab the
> latest stable cairo release, which is 1.0.4. It is available here:
>
> 	http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.0.4.tar.gz
>
> Ironically, using CVS to checkout cairo-branch-1.0 will actually give
> you something older than cairo-1.0.4, (specifically, it gives you
> something from somewhere between cairo 1.0.2 and cairo 1.0.4). This is
> because the latest development has moved from cvs to git. (I put some
> warnings into the main branch of the CVS checkout that tell people to
> use git if they try to build it---but I'd forgotten to do the same for
> cairo-branch-1.0).
>
> The current way to checkout the latest version of the 1.0 branch is to
> first clone the git repository:
>
> 	git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo
>
> then checkout the 1.0 branch:
>
> 	cd cairo
> 	git checkout 1.0
>
> But at this moment there aren't any code changes between the 1.0.4
> release and the 1.0 branch anyway, so it might be easier to just use
> the tar file.
>
> Good luck, I hope you're able to build cairo soon so you can start
> playing with it.
>
> -Carl
>