Hi, I installed X11 2.3.2-rc1, which installed new cairo libs in /usr/X11/ lib. As a result, my pango in /usr/local complained, I guess since it was built against the old cairo libs. So I downloaded and tried to build pango. Compilation failed with: In file included from pangocairo-atsui.h:27, from pangocairo-fontmap.c:29: /usr/X11/include/cairo/cairo-quartz.h:78:3: error: #error Cairo was not compiled with support for the quartz backend pangocairo-fontmap.c: In function ‘pango_cairo_font_map_set_default ’: pangocairo-fontmap.c:209: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type make[4]: *** [libpangocairo_1_0_la-pangocairo-fontmap.lo] Error 1 make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 So my question is: Is there a reason that cairo was built in the way it was? I just downloaded cairo-1.8.4 and configured with --PREFIX=/ usr/X11. Support for quartz backend was included automatically. I then built pango and all seems well. Just out of curiosity, why is cairo included with the X11 package? I used to have my own in /usr/local but having two sets of libcairos was a source of trouble. Louis