Since http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit?id=7cfebce15228c88ee122edb8ba575f9a609e36f4 building of Cairo fails with -Wl,--gc-sections in LDFLAGS. Output of `configure`: ... checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -Winline... yes checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -erroff=E_ENUM_TYPE_MISMATCH_ARG... no checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -erroff=E_ENUM_TYPE_MISMATCH_OP... no checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -fno-strict-aliasing... yes checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -fno-common... yes checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2... no checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -Wunused-but-set-variable -Wno-unused-but-set-variable... yes checking which warning flags were supported... -Wall -Wextra -Wmissing-declarations -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wsign-compare -Wpacked -Wswitch-enum -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wvolatile-register-var -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Winit-self -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-attributes -Wno-long-long -Winline -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Wno-unused-but-set-variable checking how to enable unused result warnings... __attribute__((__warn_unused_result__)) checking how to allow undefined symbols in shared libraries used by test suite... -Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking whether float word ordering is bigendian... unknown configure: error: Unknown float word ordering. You need to manually preset ax_cv_c_float_words_bigendian=no (or yes) according to your system.
What is your system? Also, have you tested against f9b65ae1fc91bc558a01c2ad7be5a121c6f10818 ?
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