in reply to Re: Failed to link while building XS code
in thread Failed to link while building XS code

Build.PL does not output anything strange. The cairo library is indexed by ldconfig:
# ldconfig -p | grep cairo.so libcairo.so.2 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcairo +.so.2 libcairo.so.2 (libc6) => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcairo.so.2 libcairo.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcairo.s +o