diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e22383daf..7c701f224 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2007-07-08  Alex Roitman  <shura@gramps-project.org>
+	* configure.in: Add check for python-cairo>=1.2.6.
+
 2007-07-08  Don Allingham  <don@gramps-project.org>
 	* src/DbManager.py: Add support for Thunar, which stores the DND 
 	information in a different area (and probably a more correct area) than
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 2bcd6edcc..08d45114f 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -97,6 +97,33 @@ then
 fi
 AC_MSG_RESULT($has_pygtk)
 
+AC_MSG_CHECKING(Python bindings for cairo (python-cairo>=1.2.6))
+cat > conftest.py <<EOF
+$pygtk_require
+try:
+    import cairo
+    version = cairo.version_info
+    if version >= (1,2,6):
+        print_version = '.'.join([[str(i) for i in version]])
+        out(print_version)
+    else:
+        out("NO")
+except ImportError:
+    out("NO")
+except AttributeError:
+    out("NO")
+EOF
+$PYTHON conftest.py
+has_cairo=`cat conftest.out`
+rm -f conftest.out conftest.py
+if test NO = "$has_cairo"
+then
+   AC_MSG_ERROR([
+
+**** The python bindings for cairo (python-cairo>=1.2.6) could not be found.])
+fi
+AC_MSG_RESULT($has_cairo)
+
 AC_MSG_CHECKING(Python bindings for gnome)
 cat > conftest.py <<EOF
 $pygtk_require