Problem building Gnucash 2.2.5 on Centos 5.1

[Derek Atkins]

Jeroen Coenders <j.l.coenders at universalgrid.nl> writes:

>> > /usr/lib/libgoffice-0.6.so.6: undefined reference to `cairo_clip_extents'
>> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> > make[4]: *** [gnucash-bin] Error 1
>> > make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/gnucash-2.2.5/src/bin'
>> > make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> > make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/gnucash-2.2.5/src/bin'
>> > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gnucash-2.2.5/src'
>> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/gnucash-2.2.5'
>> > make: *** [all] Error 2
>> >
>> > Any clue what is wrong?
>>
>> It looks like cario doesn't have a symbol that goffice-0.6 wants; what
>> version of cairo are you buildings against `pkg-config --modversion cairo`?
>
> It reported 1.2.4.
>
> I seem to have solved it by manually upgrading cairo and pixman:
> http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz
> http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz

Yeah, 1.2.4 is pretty old.  On my Fedora 7 system I have
1.4.14.  I suspect your version of cairo is too old for
your version of libgoffice.

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-derek

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