On 12/24/06, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>
>   Did an "emerge --sync" and "emerge --ask --deep --update --world".
> When emerge got to x11-libs/gtk+-2.10.6, the following happened...
>
> checking for cups-config... /usr/bin/cups-config
> checking cairo-pdf.h usability... no
> checking cairo-pdf.h presence... no
> checking for cairo-pdf.h... no
> configure: error:
> *** Can't find cairo-pdf.h. You must build Cairo with the pdf
> *** backend enabled.
>
>   Probably because I start off USE with a "-*".  Should be an easy fix,
> insert "x11-libs/cairo pdf" into /etc/portage/package.use and rebuild
> Cairo, then proceed with the emerge... *BUT*...
>
> [m3000][root][~] emerge -pv cairo
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] x11-libs/cairo-1.2.4  USE="X png -directfb -doc -glitz
> -svg (-pdf%)" 0 kB
>
>   Oops... note the "(-pdf%)".  This option is simply not allowed for
> Cairo on my system.  I threw in "--skipfirst" into the emerge command,
> and it seems to be working so far.  But back to my main problem... how
> do I reconcile gtk+ and Cairo?
>
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I'm having this problem too :(