Re: gtk+ build problem - cairo-xlib.h

[Prof J C Nash <nashjc ncf ca>]

Since having some pretty severe problems a year ago with building the 
latest gnumeric under Ubuntu due (apparently) to library naming issues 
in that distribution, I've had some success by running the build under 
Debian Testing via a virtual machine. First I used VM Ware, but after 
changing to new hardware, I installed Debian Testing under VirtualBox 
since there is an Ubuntu package for this.

However, running JHBUILD to build Gnumeric in this environment, I 
encounter an error at stage 18/47 (gtk+). The error is given as

gtkdrawable-x11.c:32:24: error: cairo-xlib.h: No such file or directory

I've tried installing some of the dev libraries such as 
xlibs-static-dev, but no joy. Also, since cairo-xlib.h is available in 
the src collections elsewhere, I've tried placing it in 
/opt/gnome2/include/cairo/ but that then produces an error "cairo was 
not compiled with support for xlib backend".

I suspect that there is a minor bug in one of the configure or build 
scripts. Anyone have suggestions for overcoming the problem?

JN