[cairo] ld: Undefined symbol: _compress with cairo 1.2.0 on Mac OS X; cairo 1.1.10 was fine

[Evan Martin]

On 7/6/06, Andreas Tobler <toa at pop.agri.ch> wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> >> If during the build process you get the Undefined Symbols _compress
> >> and _uncompress, add -lz to the end of your build command
> >
> > But I'm not sure where to apply that change in the cairo 1.2.0 source,
> > nor whether it's the right solution. Does anybody here know?
>
> On the quick you can add the -lz in the Makefile in src to CAIRO_LIBS at
> the end.

A slightly less hacky way is to run configure like
LDFLAGS=-lz ./configure <other options>

Ryan, you might want to verify that your binary works when all of the
cairo libraries are uninstalled from your system.  Building
distributable binaries like this can be tricky.