[cairo] Cairo 1.6.4 build failing on AIX 52

[Ashish Yadav]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:14:22 +0530, "Ashish Yadav" wrote:
>> > If that's the case, then you should be able to workaround the problem
>> > by simply installing the Xrender library.
>> >
>> I already have xrender-0.9.1-2 library installed on the build
>> system.
>
> Then I can't guess what the problem is. You'll have to figure out what
> your compiler is unhappy with. And then we can see if its reasonable
> for us to fix it.
>
> First, is your cairo-features.h defining
> CAIRO_HAS_XLIB_XRENDER_SURFACE to 1?
>
>> Anyway as the code is being modified at this time , I'll probably wait
>> till it's over.
>>
>> Will there be enough time to include those changes in Cairo 1.6.6?
>
> I don't think we'll be taking Behdad's current rewrites, no.
>
> What we want for 1.6.6 is stuff that's been out and tested for a
> while. Behdad's got a proposed cleanup, but we don't even have
> evidence of it fixing any actual problems yet.
>
> -Carl
>

I was able to build Cairo by manually including the path
"/opt/freeware/include" in CFLAGS environment variable ( though it is
mentioned in xrender.pc), so that configure script doesn't miss it.

Shouldn't configure look for "xrender.pc" first?
-- 
Regards,

Ashish