Bug 30910

I believe the problem is this hunk in CAIRO_CC_TRY_LINK_WITH_ENV_SILENT in build/aclocal.cairo.m4 
        if test "x$cairo_cc_stderr" != "x"; then
                cairo_cc_flag=no
        fi

Yep.  A simple bypass of that check gets us building right:
gsed -i 's:test "x$cairo_cc_stderr" != "x":false:' configures

What's the reasoning behind checking stderr?  Perhaps there is a better way to achieve those ends...

*** Bug 33417 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I just want to say that this bug makes it impossible to build on osx with 10.4u SDK because ld always gives a warning about an object compiled with -mlong-branch which is no longer needed. Configure really needs to ignore these warnings. Editing configure as mentioned fixes the problem.

I attempted to repro the problem on ubuntu 14.04, with these steps:


sudo mkdir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tmp
sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tmp/

./configure --disable-static --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-nls --disable-quartz --enable-xlib --enable-xlib-xrender --enable-xcb --disable-specs --disable-devel-docs --disable-pthread

Yet this results in a successful config (I didn't try to build it).  If I change to --enable-pthread, it fails to build (obviously), but then:

sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tmp/* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
sudo rmdir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tmp

./configure --disable-static --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-nls --disable-quartz --enable-xlib --enable-xlib-xrender --enable-xcb --disable-specs --disable-devel-docs --disable-pthread

Is this still an issue on OSX?  If so, anyone want to propose a patch?

Yes, it is still an issue.  We just disable the buggy '"x$cairo_cc_stderr" != "x"' logic, but that's not really a portable solution for you:


diff -Naurp cairo-1.12.2.orig/configure cairo-1.12.2/configure
--- cairo-1.12.2.orig/configure	2012-04-29 11:49:59.000000000 -0700
+++ cairo-1.12.2/configure	2012-05-03 11:23:49.000000000 -0700
@@ -18044,7 +18044,7 @@ fi
 rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
     conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
 
-	if test "x$cairo_cc_stderr" != "x"; then
+	if false; then
 		cairo_cc_flag=no
 	fi
 
@@ -18091,7 +18091,7 @@ fi
 rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
     conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
 
-	if test "x$cairo_cc_stderr" != "x"; then
+	if false; then
 		cairo_cc_flag=no
 	fi
 
@@ -18161,7 +18161,7 @@ fi
 rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
     conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
 
-	if test "x$cairo_cc_stderr" != "x"; then
+	if false; then
 		cairo_cc_flag=no
 	fi
 
@@ -18217,7 +18217,7 @@ fi
 rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
     conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
 
-	if test "x$cairo_cc_stderr" != "x"; then
+	if false; then
 		cairo_cc_flag=no
 	fi
 
@@ -19663,7 +19663,7 @@ fi
 rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
     conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
 
-	if test "x$cairo_cc_stderr" != "x"; then
+	if false; then
 		cairo_cc_flag=no
 	fi
 
@@ -19710,7 +19710,7 @@ fi
 rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
     conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
 
-	if test "x$cairo_cc_stderr" != "x"; then
+	if false; then
 		cairo_cc_flag=no
 	fi
 
@@ -32692,7 +32692,7 @@ fi
 rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
     conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
 
-	if test "x$cairo_cc_stderr" != "x"; then
+	if false; then
 		cairo_cc_flag=no
 	fi
 
@@ -32811,7 +32811,7 @@ fi
 rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
     conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
 
-	if test "x$cairo_cc_stderr" != "x"; then
+	if false ; then
 		cairo_cc_flag=no
 	fi
 
@@ -32892,7 +32892,7 @@ fi
 rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
     conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
 
-	if test "x$cairo_cc_stderr" != "x"; then
+	if false; then
 		cairo_cc_flag=no
 	fi

Occurs when -Wl,--build-id is in LDFLAGS.

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