[racket] Racket on Centos 5

Apparently CentOS 5.5 packages Cairo version 1.2.4.

Looks like "cairo_clip_extents" was introduced in Cairo snapshot version 
1.3.2.

So, "cairo_clip_extents" was introduced in the development stream in 
November 15th, 2006, four years ago, but the RHEL distro (and therefore, 
CentOS) has not picked it up. Seems like RHEL/CentOS are as bad for 
recent-era libraries as Debian Stable.  (Matthew Flatt graciously added 
compatibility with the old GTK-related library versions on the Debian 
Stable distros that I tend to use.)

Looks like the recently released RHEL 6 has Cairo 1.8.8 or later (which 
should be fine for DrRacket), but CentOS 6 is not yet available.  I 
don't know what Cairo version CentOS 5.6 will have.

Ritchie Cai wrote at 03/01/2011 10:09 PM:
> Centos 5.5, [...] ffi-obj: couldn't get "cairo_clip_extents" from "libcairo.so.2" (/usr/lib64/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: cairo_clip_extents)
>   

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