Looks like older cairo had a different approach (searching the object file rather than the fully linked executable) up until this change:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/build/aclocal.float.m4?id=7cfebce15...
Why are we top-posting?
dan
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:21:27 -0400, Daniel Macks <dmacks@...2516...> wrote: I think the portable way is to call conftest$ac_exeext to get the
correct executable-extenstion for the current platform. dan
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:14:20 +0100, Joel Holdsworth <joel@...1709...> wrote: As it happens I'm compiling cairo on mingw, and I've found a problem in
aclocal.float.m4. These lines... > if strings - conftest | grep seesnoon >/dev/null ; then
...fail because on windows you get conftest.exe instead of
conftest. > Any suggestions for a workaround? something that keeps the detection > functionality working. >
Best Regards Joel Holdsworth
On 14/10/14 20:38, Josh Andler wrote:
Hey all,
For those who don't sub to the cairo list, cairo 1.14 has been released which has the downscaling we need available for 0.91. > > So, any Windows devs want to see about building it and testing
for > the devlibs?
The sooner we can can get on this, the better... > > http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.14.0.tar.xz
Cheers, Josh
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