tce-load -i compiletc glib2-dev libEGL-dev libGLES-dev libXrender-dev libXext-dev fontconfig-dev pixman-dev

wget https://download.gnome.org/sources/cairo/1.17/cairo-1.17.6.tar.xz

cd cairo-1.17.6

CC="gcc -march=armv8-a+crc -mtune=cortex-a72 -Os -pipe" CXX="g++ -march=armv8-a+crc -mtune=cortex-a72 -Os -pipe -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local localstatedir=/var --disable-static --enable-xlib-xcb --enable-tee --enable-glesv2

[use either --enable-gl=yes or --enable-glesv2=yes. Not both at the same time]
[--enable-glesv3 fails]

[flto fails]

find . -name Makefile -type f -exec sed -i 's/-g -O2//g' {} \;

make [7m 28.34s]
sudo make install

cairo (version 1.17.6 [snapshot]) will be compiled with:

The following surface backends:
  Image:         yes (always builtin)
  Recording:     yes (always builtin)
  Observer:      yes (always builtin)
  Mime:          yes (always builtin)
  Tee:           yes
  XML:           no (disabled, use --enable-xml to enable)
  Xlib:          yes
  Xlib Xrender:  yes
  Quartz:        no (requires CoreGraphics framework)
  Quartz-image:  no (disabled, use --enable-quartz-image to enable)
  XCB:           yes
  Win32:         no (requires a Win32 platform)
  CairoScript:   yes
  PostScript:    yes
  PDF:           yes
  SVG:           yes
  OpenGL:        no (disabled, use --enable-gl to enable)
  OpenGL ES 2.0: yes
  OpenGL ES 3.0: no (disabled, use --enable-glesv3 to enable)

The following font backends:
  User:          yes (always builtin)
  FreeType:      yes
  Fontconfig:    yes
  Win32:         no (requires a Win32 platform)
  Quartz:        no (requires CoreGraphics framework)

The following functions:
  PNG functions:   yes
  GLX functions:   no (not required by any backend)
  WGL functions:   no (not required by any backend)
  EGL functions:   yes
  X11-xcb functions: yes
  XCB-shm functions: yes

The following features and utilities:
  cairo-trace:                yes
  cairo-script-interpreter:   yes

And the following internal features:
  pthread:       yes
  gtk-doc:       no
  gcov support:  no
  symbol-lookup: yes
  test surfaces: no (disabled, use --enable-test-surfaces to enable)
  ps testing:    no (requires libspectre)
  pdf testing:   no (requires poppler-glib >= 0.17.4)
  svg testing:   no (requires librsvg-2.0 >= 2.35.0)


--- The Xlib/XCB functions feature is still under active development and is
--- included in this release only as a preview. It does NOT fully work yet
--- and incompatible changes may yet be made to Xlib/XCB functions specific
--- API.

--- The OpenGLESv2 surface backend feature is still under active development
--- and is included in this release only as a preview. It does NOT fully work
--- yet and incompatible changes may yet be made to OpenGLESv2 surface
--- backend specific API.

--- The tee surface backend feature is still under active development and is
--- included in this release only as a preview. It does NOT fully work yet
--- and incompatible changes may yet be made to tee surface backend specific
--- API.