(In reply to comment #0)
> Xcb is version 1.9. The compiler option -Wimplicit-function-declaration is
> needed or this error will be reported:
> 
> 	cairo-xcb-shm.c: In function '_cairo_xcb_connection_allocate_shm_info':
> 	cairo-xcb-shm.c:177: error: implicit declaration of function
> 'xcb_discard_reply'
> 	cairo-xcb-shm.c:177: warning: nested extern declaration of
> 'xcb_discard_reply'

Are you really, really, really sure that this is xcb 1.9? And there is no older version of xcb laying around somewhere? The function xcb_discard_reply() was added in libxcb 1.6.

> With the above configuration I ran into this error:
> 
> 	cairo-boilerplate-xcb.c: In function '_cairo_boilerplate_xcb_handle_errors':
> 	cairo-boilerplate-xcb.c:59: error: 'xcb_generic_error_t' has no member
> named 'major_code'
> 	cairo-boilerplate-xcb.c:59: error: 'xcb_generic_error_t' has no member
> named 'minor_code'
> 	make[5]: *** [cairo-boilerplate-xcb.lo] Error 1
> 	make[4]: *** [../boilerplate/libcairoboilerplate.la] Error 2
> 
> Is my Xcb version too up-to-date?

Apparently not. These fields are even older and were added in libxcb 1.4

> How can I make the "macros" CC etc. display the complete line of invocation?

I am not sure. It was either "make VERBOSE=1" or "make V=1". You can also pass --disable-silent-rules to ./configure.

How many versions of libxcb do you have laying around? With "locate xcb.pc" you should at least be able to find all the xcb pkg-config files.

(In reply to comment #1)
> 
> Are you really, really, really sure that this is xcb 1.9? And there is no
> older version of xcb laying around somewhere? The function
> xcb_discard_reply() was added in libxcb 1.6.

Configure performs this check:

	  xcb_REQUIRES="xcb >= 1.6 xcb-render >= 1.6"
	  ($PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "$xcb_REQUIRES") 2>&5

and then reports:

	checking for xcb... yes

So configure likely checked a libxcb version >= 1.6. Changing directory to libxcb-1.9 I get:

	find . -type f -name "*.[ch]" -exec grep xcb_discard_reply {} /dev/null \;
	./src/xcb.h:void xcb_discard_reply(xcb_connection_t *c, unsigned int sequence);
	./src/xcb_in.c:void xcb_discard_reply(xcb_connection_t *c, unsigned int sequence)
	./src/xcbext.h: * xcb_discard_reply(). */

These lines from the compilation with -H show the use of the original Mac OS X libxcb header files:

	/usr/X11/include/xcb/render.h
	/usr/X11/include/xcb/shm.h
	/usr/X11/include/xcb/xcb.h
	/usr/X11/include/xcb/xcbext.h
	/usr/X11/include/xcb/xproto.h

It is version 1.2… Which explains the failure. The cause is here (from config.log):

	xcb_CFLAGS='-I${HOME}/Softwaren64/include -I/usr/X11/include  '
	xcb_LIBS='-L${HOME}/Softwaren64/lib -lxcb-render -lxcb  '
	xcb_shm_CFLAGS='-I${HOME}/Softwaren64/include -I/usr/X11/include  '
	xcb_shm_LIBS='-L${HOME}/Softwaren64/lib -lxcb-shm -lxcb  '
	xlib_CFLAGS='-I/usr/X11/include  '
	xlib_LIBS='-L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -lXext  '
	xlib_xcb_CFLAGS=''
	xlib_xcb_LIBS=''
	xlib_xrender_CFLAGS='-I/usr/X11/include  '
	xlib_xrender_LIBS='-L/usr/X11/lib -lXrender -lX11  '

It uses Mac OS X's original libX11, which is version 1.2.1. I am also using fontconfig from Mac OS X, so I have one more reason to include /usr/X11/include. But GCC 4 (at least on Mac OS X) knows the option -idirafter. Configuring as in:

	env LANG=C PATH=${HOME}/Softwaren64/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/local/x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0/bin:/opt/local/bin:$PATH ./configure --prefix=${HOME}/Softwaren64 --with-pic --enable-static --x-includes=/usr/X11/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib CPPFLAGS="-H -I${HOME}/Softwaren64/include -idirafter /usr/X11/include -DCAIRO_NO_MUTEX=1" CFLAGS="-pipe -fPIC -fno-common -Os -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -m64 -fomit-frame-pointer -msse4.2" LDFLAGS="-m64 -Wl,-t -Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs -L${HOME}/Softwaren64/lib" PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${HOME}/Softwaren64/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11/share/pkgconfig:/usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig

allows to successfully build Cairo 1.12.8!


Thank you for encouraging me to search my own failures!