[cairo] Freetype requirements

[Rui Tiago Cação Matos]

2008/11/26 David Björkevik <david at bjorkevik.se>:
> I need to compile a recent cairo under older linux platforms like RHEL3
> and SuSE 9.1. However, configure fails since the installed version of
> freetype is to old (9.3.3).
>
> I tried to just patch the configure-script to allow this older version
> of freetype, and now everything builds just fine.
>
> Anyone knows why cairo requires the newer version? What bugs or problems
> should I expect?

I think this should answer your question:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13482

Though, it shouldn't have built for you according to that bug.

Rui