Can not find the cairo library or version is lower than required

One more prerequisite for GTK+, which might be complaining the lower version than required or simply loss of it:


try to reinstall in the first place:

yum  -y reinstall cairo-devel.x86_64 cairo.x86_64

and the cairo dependencies,
yum -y reinstall pixman-devel.x86_64 pixman.x86_64
yum -y  reinstall freetype.x86_64 freetype-devel.x86_64
yum -y  reinstall libpng.x86_64 libpng-devel.x86_64
yum -y  reinstall libXrender.x86_64 libXrender-devel.x86_64

yum -y reinstall libX11-devel.x86_64 libX11.x86_64
yum -y reinstall libXau libXau-devel

for things might be lost:
yum -y install libxcb libxcb-devel


oh, my goodness, it works at last now:

pkg-config --modversion cairo
1.8.8

beaten it!