Another note - Re: [cairo] Help! building on Solaris

[Mathew Yeates]

I should also mention that I get alot of warning messages saying
warning: visibility attribute not supported in this configuration; ignored

Mathew Yeates wrote:
> 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
>>   
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