Trying to compile cairo with some missing libs fails at build step. If those
libs are required to be able to compile, then it should fail during configure. 
A few concerned libs (among others, in similar bugs) are libjpeg, libbz2, libopenssl

libjpeg:
========

libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libjpeg.la' or unhandled
argument `/usr/lib/libjpeg.la'
make[2]: *** [pdf2png] Erreur 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/liberforce/cvs/gnome2/cairo/test'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/liberforce/cvs/gnome2/cairo'
make: *** [all] Erreur 2
*** error during stage build of cairo: could not build module *** [14/136]


libbz2
=======
libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libbz2.la' or unhandled
argument `/usr/lib/libbz2.la'
make[2]: *** [svg2png] Erreur 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/liberforce/cvs/gnome2/cairo/test'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/liberforce/cvs/gnome2/cairo'
make: *** [all] Erreur 2
*** error during stage build of cairo: could not build module *** [14/136]


libopenssl
==========
gcc -g -O2 -o svg2png svg2png-svg2png.o  -L/opt/gnome2/lib
/opt/gnome2/lib/librsvg-2.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so -lssl -lcrypto
/opt/gnome2/lib/libhowl.so -lresolv -lutil -lrt /opt/gnome2/lib/libbonobo-2.so
/opt/gnome2/lib/libgconf-2.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libbonobo-activation.so
/opt/gnome2/lib/libORBitCosNaming-2.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libORBit-2.so
/usr/lib/libpopt.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libgthread-2.0.so -lpthread
/opt/gnome2/lib/libgsf-1.so /usr/lib/libbz2.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libcroco-0.6.so
/opt/gnome2/lib/libxml2.so -L/usr/X11R6/lib /opt/gnome2/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so
/opt/gnome2/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so
/opt/gnome2/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libfontconfig.so
/opt/gnome2/lib/libpango-1.0.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libcairo.so
/opt/gnome2/lib/libXrender.so -lX11 -lXext -lpng12 /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so
/usr/lib/libexpat.so /usr/lib/libfreetype.so -lz
/opt/gnome2/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl
/opt/gnome2/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lm -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/opt/gnome2/lib -Wl,--rpath
-Wl,/opt/gnome2/lib
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [svg2png] Erreur 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/liberforce/cvs/gnome2/cairo/test'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/liberforce/cvs/gnome2/cairo'
make: *** [all] Erreur 2
*** error during stage build of cairo: could not build module *** [1/123]