Re: why is cairo with pdf and postscript backend mandatory?

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- On Tue, 2/24/09, nazgul33 <nazgul33 gmail com> wrote:

> From: nazgul33 <nazgul33 gmail com>
> Subject: Re: why is cairo with pdf and postscript backend mandatory?
> To: sergstesh yahoo com
> Cc: gtk-list gnome org
> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 6:29 PM
> Hi sergei
> 
> current GTK+ configure script finishes with no success if
> cairo is not
> compiled with PDF/PS backend.
> Then you might be saying that you modified something?
> 
> What did you do to remove the "pdf/ps enabled
> cairo" dependency of GTK+? Can
> you share the tip with the group? ;)
> 

I didn't modify anything. This an excerpt from 'cairo' 'configure' screen
output:

"
checking for cairo's PostScript surface backend feature...
checking whether cairo's PostScript surface backend feature could be enabled... yes
checking for gs... gs
checking for LIBSPECTRE... no
no
checking for cairo's PDF surface backend feature...
checking whether cairo's PDF surface backend feature could be enabled... yes
checking for POPPLER... no
no
configure: WARNING: PDF backend will not be tested since poppler >= 0.9.2 is not available
".

The command line simply was:

./configure --prefix=/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/install/cairo-1.8.6
.

Regards,
  Sergei.