See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3402 for the explanation.
This is now less of an issue since pixman is currently folded into cairo, however the autogen.sh should probably be updated to match the new one in cairo.
Closing since libpixman is now inside of cairo and should never be autogened or configured alone at all.
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