With 1.15.12 doing
  ./configure --enable-xml --enable-glesv2 --enable-glesv3 --enable-xlib-xcb --enable-tee --enable-drm
prints

cairo (version 1.15.12 [snapshot]) will be compiled with:

The following surface backends:
  Image:         yes (always builtin)
  Recording:     yes (always builtin)
  Observer:      yes (always builtin)
  Mime:          yes (always builtin)
  Tee:           yes
  XML:           yes
  Xlib:          yes
  Xlib Xrender:  yes
  Qt:            no (disabled, use --enable-qt to enable)
  Quartz:        no (requires CoreGraphics framework)
  Quartz-image:  no (disabled, use --enable-quartz-image to enable)
  XCB:           yes
  Win32:         no (requires a Win32 platform)
  OS2:           no (disabled, use --enable-os2 to enable)
  CairoScript:   yes
  PostScript:    yes
  PDF:           yes
  SVG:           yes
  OpenGL:        no (disabled, use --enable-gl to enable)
  OpenGL ES 2.0: yes
  OpenGL ES 3.0: yes
  BeOS:          no (disabled, use --enable-beos to enable)
  DirectFB:      no (disabled, use --enable-directfb to enable)
  OpenVG:        no (disabled, use --enable-vg to enable)
  DRM:           yes
  Cogl:          no (disabled, use --enable-cogl to enable)

The following font backends:
  User:          yes (always builtin)
  FreeType:      yes
  Fontconfig:    yes
  Win32:         no (requires a Win32 platform)
  Quartz:        no (requires CoreGraphics framework)

The following functions:
  PNG functions:   yes
  GLX functions:   no (not required by any backend)
  WGL functions:   no (not required by any backend)
  EGL functions:   yes
  X11-xcb functions: yes
  XCB-shm functions: yes

The following features and utilities:
  cairo-trace:                yes
  cairo-script-interpreter:   yes

And the following internal features:
  pthread:       yes
  gtk-doc:       no
  gcov support:  no
  symbol-lookup: no (requires bfd)
  test surfaces: no (disabled, use --enable-test-surfaces to enable)
  ps testing:    no (requires libspectre)
  pdf testing:   yes
  svg testing:   no (requires librsvg-2.0 >= 2.35.0)


--- The Xlib/XCB functions feature is still under active development and is
--- included in this release only as a preview. It does NOT fully work yet
--- and incompatible changes may yet be made to Xlib/XCB functions specific
--- API.

--- The DRM surface backend feature is still under active development and is
--- included in this release only as a preview. It does NOT fully work yet
--- and incompatible changes may yet be made to DRM surface backend specific
--- API.

--- The OpenGLESv2 surface backend feature is still under active development
--- and is included in this release only as a preview. It does NOT fully work
--- yet and incompatible changes may yet be made to OpenGLESv2 surface
--- backend specific API.

--- The OpenGLESv3 surface backend feature is still under active development
--- and is included in this release only as a preview. It does NOT fully work
--- yet and incompatible changes may yet be made to OpenGLESv3 surface
--- backend specific API.

--- The tee surface backend feature is still under active development and is
--- included in this release only as a preview. It does NOT fully work yet
--- and incompatible changes may yet be made to tee surface backend specific
--- API.

--- The xml surface backend feature is still under active development and is
--- included in this release only as a preview. It does NOT fully work yet
--- and incompatible changes may yet be made to xml surface backend specific
--- API.

and doing `make` emits:


Makefile:1502: warning: overriding recipe for target 'recheck'
Makefile:1140: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'recheck'
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/src/gnome/cairo-1.15.12'
Makefile:1502: warning: overriding recipe for target 'recheck'
Makefile:1140: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'recheck'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory '/src/gnome/cairo-1.15.12/src'
make  all-am
make[3]: Entering directory '/src/gnome/cairo-1.15.12/src'
  CC       cairo-drm.lo
In file included from ./cairo-reference-count-private.h:40:0,
                 from ./cairo-types-private.h:45,
                 from ./cairo-error-private.h:43,
                 from ./cairoint.h:74,
                 from drm/cairo-drm.c:33:
drm/cairo-drm.c: In function ‘_device_finish’:
drm/cairo-drm.c:86:36: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘_cairo_atomic_ptr_cmpxchg_impl’ from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
     if (_cairo_atomic_ptr_cmpxchg (&_cairo_drm_default_device,
                                    ^
./cairo-atomic-private.h:145:34: note: in definition of macro ‘_cairo_atomic_ptr_cmpxchg’
   _cairo_atomic_ptr_cmpxchg_impl(x, oldv, newv)
                                  ^
./cairo-atomic-private.h:138:1: note: expected ‘void **’ but argument is of type ‘cairo_drm_device_t ** {aka struct _cairo_drm_device **}’
 _cairo_atomic_ptr_cmpxchg_impl(void **x, void *oldv, void *newv)
 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drm/cairo-drm.c: At top level:
drm/cairo-drm.c:106:5: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
     _device_flush,
     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
drm/cairo-drm.c:106:5: note: (near initialization for ‘_cairo_drm_device_backend.flush’)
drm/cairo-drm.c: In function ‘cairo_drm_device_get_for_fd’:
drm/cairo-drm.c:267:9: error: implicit declaration of function ‘fstat’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
     if (fstat (fd, &st) < 0 || ! S_ISCHR (st.st_mode)) {
         ^~~~~
drm/cairo-drm.c:267:34: error: implicit declaration of function ‘S_ISCHR’; did you mean ‘S_IFCHR’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
     if (fstat (fd, &st) < 0 || ! S_ISCHR (st.st_mode)) {
                                  ^~~~~~~
                                  S_IFCHR
drm/cairo-drm.c: At top level:
drm/cairo-drm.c:390:1: fatal error: opening dependency file .deps/cairo-drm.Tpo: Permission denied
 }
 ^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
compilation terminated.
make[3]: *** [Makefile:2424: cairo-drm.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/src/gnome/cairo-1.15.12/src'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1962: all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/src/gnome/cairo-1.15.12/src'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:910: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/src/gnome/cairo-1.15.12'
make: *** [Makefile:761: all] Error 2