compiling from source - configure problem with cairomm

graph-tool
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Hi,

I'm trying to install graph-tool-2.2.27 from source (Debian 6.0/python
2.7.5)

    ./configure --prefix=${HOME}/scratch/temp/gt

<snip>

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for CAIROMM... no
configure: error: Package requirements (cairomm-1.0) were not met:

No package 'cairomm-1.0' found

</snip

THIS tells me that cairomm-1.0 is not installed.
I'm a bit surprised as this is marked as an optional dependency
here: http://graph-tool.skewed.de/download

However

    dpkg -L libcairomm-1.0-1

/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libcairomm-1.0-1
/usr/share/doc/libcairomm-1.0-1/README
/usr/share/doc/libcairomm-1.0-1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libcairomm-1.0-1/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libcairomm-1.0-1/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libcairomm-1.0-1/NEWS.gz
/usr/share/doc/libcairomm-1.0-1/changelog.gz
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/libcairomm-1.0.so.1.4.0
/usr/lib/libcairomm-1.0.so.1

But

    pkg-config cairomm-1.0-1 --libs

ckage cairomm-1.0-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `cairomm-1.0-1.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'cairomm-1.0-1' found

I suspect this is a rather simple issue. Could you please tell me how to
adjust configure to find my cairomm installation?

Much appreciated,
Matthias

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In Debian, the libraries are almost always split in two packages: One
containing the shared object and another one with "-dev" suffix which
contains the header files. For cairomm you need to install the
libcairomm-1.0-dev package, in addition to libcairomm-1.0.

And cairo support _is_ optional. If you want to disable it, just pass
the --disable-cairo to the configure script.

Cheers,
Tiago

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Thanks Tiago, I hadn't realized I have to manually disable the optional
dependencies.

Thanks again,
Matthias

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