Bug 92253

Summary:	unable to build pycairo on RHEL6.7
Product:	pycairo	Reporter:	Rob <ryelle>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Steve Chaplin <d74n5pohf9>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Rob 2015-10-02 16:14:09 UTC

I am unable to build pycairo under any conditions on a RHEL6.6 or 6.7 system.

If I obtain software with git and use "autogen.sh", it is unable to recognize my Cairo 1.14.2 installation:  "Package requirements (cairo >= 1.10.0) were not met".  Does not matter that I have set the "PKG_CONFIG_PATH" or "CAIRO_LIBS" environment variables.

I get the same error if I use "configure".

If I use the py2cairo-1.10.0 tarball, and use "./waf configure", it complains that my python2.7 executable is different than my python executable, but in actuality, python is just a symbolic link to python2.7.

I cannot get it to configure with any of these python versions:  2.7.9, 2.7.10, 3.3.4 and the 2.6.6 version that came with the system.

Seems like there is something missing or fundamentally wrong in the configuration.  If pycairo 1.10.0 was built and tested on a RHEL6.x system, I would be interested in knowing what steps were required. Any advice on what to do would be greatly appreciated.

Comment 1 Christoph Reiter 2017-07-05 15:05:10 UTC

Since 1.11 pycairo uses distutils for building. There is a good chance that this bug no longer occurs with the new system. If there are still problems please file a bug: https://github.com/pygobject/pycairo/issues

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