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

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:11, David Turner wrote:

>> Don't think it's my fault.  Cairo doesn't directly use zlib, FreeType
>> does.  In the link command, it just says "-lfontconfig -lfreetype",
>> which makes me believe that "pkg-config --libs freetype2" is to be
>> blamed.
>
> it depends on how FreeType was compiled. By default, it no zlib is  
> found by the "configure" script,
> the font engine will include its own copy of the zlib decompression  
> routines, and no "-lz" will be
> required at link-time. Another option is to build the library  
> without its "gzip" module at all, but
> I doubt that was the case here.
>
> so a missing "-lz" in 'pkg-config --libs freetype2' doesn't  
> necessarily means a problem here.

Currently I am using freetype as provided by Mac OS X's X11  
environment. Apple provides no pkg-config file for this; /usr/X11R6/ 
lib/pkgconfig contains only fontconfig.pc, xcursor.pc and xft.pc.

Note again that cairo 1.1.10 compiles without errors, with no other  
changes to my environment (IOW, with the same freetype).