[racket] Racket on Centos 5

Hi,

I've encountered the exactly same problem today, running on Oracle Linux (= Red Hat 5.5, approximately)...
Would anyone know a workaround for this, or if any not-too-outdated racket version would run with the old libcairo version?

Unfortunately I have no alternative to installing racket on some RedHat-like system in a VM, for the present purpose...

Many thanks for any ideas,
Sigrid




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> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:48:20 -0500
> From: Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org>
> To: Ritchie Cai <ritchiecai at gmail.com>
> Cc: users at racket-lang.org
> Subject: Re: [racket] Racket on Centos 5
> Message-ID: <4D6DBE04.3070806 at neilvandyke.org>
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> Apparently CentOS 5.5 packages Cairo version 1.2.4.
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> Looks like "cairo_clip_extents" was introduced in Cairo snapshot version 
> 1.3.2.
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> 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.)
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> 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.
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> 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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