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Build fails if libbfd development headers are installed

To reproduce: compile cairo 1.17.6 or git master on a Debian system that has binutils-dev installed. (We don't use this in production builds, but individual developers might have binutils-dev because it's a build-dependency for sysprof.)

In file included from ../util/cairo-trace/lookup-symbol.c:63:
../util/cairo-trace/lookup-symbol.c: In function ‘_symtab_init’:
../util/cairo-trace/lookup-symbol.c:109:59: error: ‘PTR’ undeclared (first use in this function)
  109 |     symcount = bfd_read_minisymbols (symtab->bfd, false, (PTR) &symtab->syms, &size);
      |                                                           ^~~
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