title: Building Pango with Cairo support
body: <p>I'm attempting to build a new version of wireshark 1.10 on a RHEL5 box with the intent of making an RPM so that customers that I support can install it.  Possibly others if I can find a place to host it.</p>
  
  <p>WS1.10 depends on GTK+ as well as several other libraries that aren't supported by the available rpm packages.  Therefore,  I have to build them by hand.  GTK+ needs pango(1.24.5) with cairo(1.8.8) support.  </p>
  
  <p>After having built and installed a newer version of cairo from source,  a ./configure of pango gives the following error</p>
  
  <pre><code>checking for CAIRO... yes
  checking which cairo font backends could be used... none
  configure: Disabling cairo support
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and then at the end ./configure displays</p>
  
  <pre><code>configuration:
          backends: X
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can verify that Cairo is installed by looking at the pkg_config in my /usr/local/lib.<br>
  I've even taken a look at the pango config.log.  But I don't see anything that is any different then the messages I copypasta'ed above.  </p>
  
  <p>What are some places I should be looking to figure out a less terse error message?  I'm kind of at a loss troubleshooting this.</p>