Re: problem building latest cvs snapshot

[James R. V. Z. <jr...@co...>]

Daniel J Sebald <dan...@ie...> wrote:

>   4) Could the following warnings be removed?
>
>   checking for CAIRO... Package cairo was not found in the
>   pkg-config search path.
>   Perhaps you should add the directory containing `cairo.pc' to the
>   PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>   No package 'cairo' found
>   configure: WARNING: Cairo can't be found. The wxWidgets terminal
>   will not be compiled.
...
>
>   Isn't it the job of the auto-build tools to sort out what should
>   and shouldn't be built?  This isn't a valid situation for warnings
>   from my perspective.

I for one appreciate these warnings.  If I am interested in the
missing functionality, they tell me what other software I should look
for. 

            - Jim Van Zandt