Re: Problem with cairo

Angela Zhu wrote:

> I want to install lablgtk, and when I was doing "./configure" (for lablgtk),
> I got following attached error msg (1).
> 
> So I try to download cairo and comple it, but after "cd cairo-1.4.14",
> when I was doing "./configure" (for cairo), I got following attached msg
> (2).

If you were on a Linux system I would say don't try and compile this
stuff from source unless you are very experienced with installing
Unix software from source [0]. Instead, install the packages from your
Linux distribution (again assuming that you were on Linux).

Since you are on Mac, the natural place for getting pre-packaged 
software is MacPorts.

> And then a funny thing is that I actually should have cairo installed on my
> machine using "MacPorts", according to attached commands and msg (3).

Rather than asking here, maybe you should ask for working Ocaml and lablgtk
packages on the macPorts mailing list.

As an aside, I have an old Mac that I boot into Mac OSX ocassionally and I 
have tried MacPorts. My experiences with MacPorts (in comparison to the 
Ubuntu and Debian Linux distros) has been disappointing (and that is an 
understatement). MacPorts probably supports common packages like Ruby, PHP
and MySQL quite well, but its support for uncommon tools like GNU Octave
and Ocaml was abysmall. Whenever I tried to grab things like these they were
broken. I since gave up on OSX and macPorts.

I don't know if Linux is an option for you, but I can tell you that the
pre-compiled packages for ocaml and lablgtk in Ubuntu and Debian are
outstanding.

HTH,
Erik

[0] Simple packages are ok, but things like Cairo and lablgtk which have
    lots of external dependancies are far more difficult.
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