Re: problem with building pango-1.0.4 and pangoxft2

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 17:00, mike wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 10:04, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 05:49:19AM +0100, mike wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 02:36, mike wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > The only errors relate to freetype 1 and xft1 whic I dont want anyway
> > > > 
> > > > snip1 xft1 stuff
> > > > #include <X11/Xft/XftFreetype.h>
> > > > configure:9776: result: no
> > > > configure:9780: checking X11/Xft/XftFreetype.h presence
> > > > configure:9787: gcc296 -E  -I/usr/include/freetype2 
> > > > -I/usr/X11R6/include conftest.c
> > > > configure:9783:33: X11/Xft/XftFreetype.h: No such file or directory
> > > > configure:9793: $? = 1
> > > > 
> > > > snip2 freetype1 stuff
> > > > #include <freetype/internal/tterrors.h>
> > > > configure:9461: result: no
> > > > configure:9465: checking freetype/internal/tterrors.h presence
> > > > configure:9472: gcc296 -E  -I/usr/include/freetype2 conftest.c
> > > > In file included from configure:9468:
> > > > /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/internal/tterrors.h:29:10: #include
> > > > expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
> > > > /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/internal/tterrors.h:36:10: #include
> > > > expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Is it me or is the behaviour of pango-1.04+ (and packages depending on
> > > it) totally broken
> > 
> > No, it's pretty much just you. One clue is that pango gets built by a
> > lot of people every day (on average) and if it broke, you would be able
> > to hear the screams. :-)

My point is not that it is broke - it is building just not pangoxft

> > > 1. Pango does not build xft2 support (despite announcements that it
> > > does) because it looks for a file that is only present in xft1
> > > (xftfreetype.h)
> > 
> > Umm ... XftFreetype.h is part of the XFree86 development packages, not
> > freetype.
> 
> that what I said ie: Xft1
> 
> > The error you are seeeing above shows that you have freetype 2.0.3
> > installed on your system (tterrors.h is only included in 2.0.3, not in
> > 2.0.4 or later) and that there is some problem with that file. I would
> > suggest checking your freetype installation for problems here.
> 
> > All the configure script is doing is trying to run a small program that
> > does #include <freetype/internal/tterrors.h> from the freetype2 (not
> > freetype1) headers and that include is failing due to syntax errors.
> > 
> > > 2. After failing to build pangoxft other packages (eg gtk+-2.0.6) look
> > > for ANY installed pangoxft which will be pango-1.1.1 if any, this is
> > > despite removing any reference to any gnome packages in .pc files (ie
> > > /usr/lib/pkgconfig removed from PKG_CONFIG_PATH)
> > 
> > You mentioned earlier that you were building a sandboxed version of
> > GNOME 2.0.2. So your pkg-config installed location (and the directory it
> > looks in) would not include any GNOME 2.1 .pc files. To make sure this
> > is the case try to run:
> > 
> > 	pkg-config --modversion pango
> 
> 1.0.5 (tried this as well)
> 
> > (should be 1.0.4 or similar; not 1.1.1). If that does not return the
> > correct version, look at th eoutput of
> > 
> > 	pkg-config --debug --modversion pango
> > 
> > to see where pkg-config is searching for the .pc files. My guess would
> > be that the wrong pkg-config is being run and it is accidently picking
> > up the pango 1.1.1 file this way ('which pkg-config' should show you
> > this, too).

OK - this was one problem it was using pkg-config in /usr/bin - but
surely pkconfig should not pick up .pc files not in PKG_CONFIG_PATH

> > Both of your points here look like problems with your system setup,
> > rather than anything wrong in Pango-land.
> > 
> > > It should either get built or ignored
> > 
> > You cannot ignore it if you depend upon it! Erroring out is the correct
> > thing to do in that case.
> 
> thats  the point - it is not erroring out
> 
> > Malcolm
> > 
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