[cairo] cairo install on linuxK26125 pc-machne

[lux-integ]

On Sunday 06 November 2005 20:51, Jeff Smith wrote:
> --- lux-integ <lux-integ at btconnect.com> wrote:
> > I am new to this list.  I am having difficulty  installing cairo.   The
> > machine is a PC-machine and runs the program Linux.  kernel
> > version-2.6.12.5.
> >
> > For cairo,  I tried versions 1.00, 1.02 and the current offering in the
> > CVS tree.   The results of my efforts are in the attached file. 
> > Help/suggestions would be gratefully received.
>
> I think you have two inter-related problems.
>
> One problem may be that you have a broken $PKG_CONFIG_PATH.  It should
> include directory names only (no files names), and the directories
> specified aught to be ones that contain .pc files (e.g.
> /opt/lib/pkgconfig).  I suspect that most of the pkg-config files it cannot
> find are in /usr/lib/pkgconfig.  This directory is usually searched by
> default (i.e. even if it is not in $PKG_CONFIG_PATH).
>
> The second problem is setting --with-PACKAGE, which probably caused the
> default pkg-config  directory to be ignored if favor of your broken
> $PKG_CONFIG_PATH.  Setting --without-PACKAGE caused the default pkg-config
> directory to be ignored, period.
>
> I see two possible solutions:
>   1.
>     a. Set your PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /opt/lib/pkgconfig
>     b. Don't use --with-PACKAGE or --without-PACKAGE for the configure
> call. 2.
>     a. Set your PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /usr/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/lib/pkgconfig
>     b. Use --with-PACKAGE=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH for the configure call.
>
> Note 1: Don't mess with PNG_LIBS, FONTCONFIG_LIBS, FREETYPE_LIBS in the
> configure call. Even if these libraries were in unusual places (which they
> are not), the way to specify this should be with configure options such as
> --with-libpng.
>
> Note 2: a lot of the configure options you specify are unnecessary, but
> they should not hurt anything either.
>
>  -- Jeff Smith

many thanks for your help.  your uggestions worked well.  I also took the 
opportunity of cleaning up the /etc/profile file

lux-integ.



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