installing pycairo1.10 failed

Hi


I am trying to build pycairo1.10.0 on Ubuntu, with anaconda python distribution. And it failed giving the error below. I have looked for solutions online but the ones I came across did not really fix it. Any suggestions please. Thanks


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zqz@zqz-CIBLAP-158:~/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0$ ./waf configure
  ./options()
Setting top to                           : /home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0
Setting out to                           : /home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/build_directory
  ./configure()
Checking for 'gcc' (c compiler)          : ok
Checking for program python              : /home/zqz/Programs/anaconda3/bin/python
Checking for python version              : (3, 6, 0, 'final', 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/.waf3-1.6.4-e3c1e08604b18a10567cfcd2d02eb6e6/waflib/Scripting.py", line 93, in waf_entry_point
    run_commands()
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/.waf3-1.6.4-e3c1e08604b18a10567cfcd2d02eb6e6/waflib/Scripting.py", line 145, in run_commands
    run_command(cmd_name)
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/.waf3-1.6.4-e3c1e08604b18a10567cfcd2d02eb6e6/waflib/Scripting.py", line 138, in run_command
    ctx.execute()
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/.waf3-1.6.4-e3c1e08604b18a10567cfcd2d02eb6e6/waflib/Configure.py", line 124, in execute
    super(ConfigurationContext,self).execute()
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/.waf3-1.6.4-e3c1e08604b18a10567cfcd2d02eb6e6/waflib/Context.py", line 87, in execute
    self.recurse([os.path.dirname(g_module.root_path)])
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/.waf3-1.6.4-e3c1e08604b18a10567cfcd2d02eb6e6/waflib/Context.py", line 127, in recurse
    user_function(self)
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/wscript", line 29, in configure
    ctx.check_python_headers()
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/.waf3-1.6.4-e3c1e08604b18a10567cfcd2d02eb6e6/waflib/Configure.py", line 217, in fun
    return f(*k,**kw)
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/.waf3-1.6.4-e3c1e08604b18a10567cfcd2d02eb6e6/waflib/Tools/python.py", line 142, in check_python_headers
    result=conf.check(lib=name,uselib='PYEMBED',libpath=path,mandatory=False,msg='Checking for library %s in LIBPATH_PYEMBED'%name)
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/.waf3-1.6.4-e3c1e08604b18a10567cfcd2d02eb6e6/waflib/Configure.py", line 217, in fun
    return f(*k,**kw)
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/.waf3-1.6.4-e3c1e08604b18a10567cfcd2d02eb6e6/waflib/Tools/c_config.py", line 357, in check
    ret=self.run_c_code(*k,**kw)
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/.waf3-1.6.4-e3c1e08604b18a10567cfcd2d02eb6e6/waflib/Configure.py", line 217, in fun
    return f(*k,**kw)
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/.waf3-1.6.4-e3c1e08604b18a10567cfcd2d02eb6e6/waflib/Tools/c_config.py", line 435, in run_c_code
    bld.compile()
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/.waf3-1.6.4-e3c1e08604b18a10567cfcd2d02eb6e6/waflib/Build.py", line 190, in compile
    self.store()
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/.waf3-1.6.4-e3c1e08604b18a10567cfcd2d02eb6e6/waflib/Utils.py", line 300, in f
    ret=fun(*k,**kw)
  File "/home/zqz/Downloads/pycairo-1.10.0/.waf3-1.6.4-e3c1e08604b18a10567cfcd2d02eb6e6/waflib/Build.py", line 164, in store
    cPickle.dump(data,f)
AttributeError: Can't pickle local object 'Context.__init__.<locals>.node_class'
Checking for library python3.6 in LIBPATH_PYEMBED :



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