cairo install fails (was: Building cairomm (inkscape dependency) fails)

[Mike McAngus]

On Apr 21, 2008, at 12:17 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Apr 20, 2008, at 7:25 PM, Mike McAngus wrote:
>
>> On Apr 20, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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>> I did not consciously install anything in /usr/local.  Looking in  
>> there, I see
>> *  ClamXav directory.  I could probably replace ClamXav with  
>> clamav from MacPorts if I was willing to give up the UI.
>> *  A "SourceGuard" directory which I don't recognize.  All of its  
>> files have Created, Modified and Accessed dates of 9/3/03.
>
> These are not a problem. It's only things installed "directly" in / 
> usr/local (that is, that were compiled with --prefix=/usr/local or  
> which install into prefix /usr/local by default) which can cause  
> problems.
>
>> *  A bin, include, lib, man and share directory.  There are many  
>> files in those directories.
>
> These are the potentially problematic files, especially the bin,  
> include and lib directories.

OK.  So how do I determine which of the 66 files in those three  
directories are problematic?  And, how do I ensure that if I make  
files in those directories unavailable I won't break something else?

>
>> The include directory contains ONLY the dlfcn.h file.  Its  
>> Created, Modified and Accessed dates are all 5/8/02, which I find  
>> interesting since the introduction date of the Power Mac G4 with  
>> dual 1.25MHz processors is  8/13/02 and I bought mine in Feb  
>> 2003.  So, I guess there is no way to know for sure when a file  
>> was actually installed onto the disk.
>
> Yeah, not sure what put that there. All you can be sure of is that  
> Apple does not provide anything in /usr/local, so it's definitely  
> third-party. MacPorts and Fink don't put anything there either.

It appears that Apple supplied an updated dlfcn.h in /usr/include.  I  
don't know why anyone would install such an old version of the file  
if Apple is including an updated version.

I do wish I had a way to know when the file was installed on my Mac.

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