I built gtk3.0 from source on openSUSE-11.1 x86-64bit. As expected, I ran into one annoying problem like this:

symbol lookup error: /opt/gnome/lib/libcairo-gobject.so.2: undefined symbol: cairo_region_destroy

I searched for the solution online. Someone suggested disabling gobject-introspection when compiling gtk3. But the default setting for gtk3 is indeed without gobject-introspection support. I got stuck and very confused. Finally, I got the things done by compiling the latest gobject-introspection(0.10.x) and enabling gobject-introspection support for atk, gdk-pixbuf and any other dependency libraries which could be set to enable this feature. YMMV. Here is the screenshot showing the about dialog from gtk3-demo.

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