[LAU] libcairo seems incomplete

[Daniel Appelt]

Hey there!

2012/2/3 Joel Roth <joelz at pobox.com>:
> Hi wizards and wizardesses,
>
> Trying to compile sndfile-tools from git, the author suggests
> I have a library problem.
>
> Cairo appears to be present during the ./configure
> phase, however some dependent libraries are not
> found during make.
>
> One of these libraries is libxcb-shm.so.0,
> which is present:
>
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-shm.so.0
>
> Can someone help me solve this:

Maybe the problem is that XCB support was dropped from regular cairo
builds some time ago:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465759

For example on arch linux, you have to use a community package in
order to get back the XCB support:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40641

Kind regards
Daniel