Re: GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1.1: "Flux Capacitor"

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> writes:

> <quote who="Jeff Waugh"/>
> 
> >   - Xft2 and fontconfig for superior font rendering and configuration, from
> >     http://fontconfig.org/ These are not required, but strongly recommended.
> 
> My mistake -> libgnomecanvas currently requires pangoft2, which is only
> built if you have fontconfig/Xft2 installed.

You don't actually need Xft2 for pangoft2, just fontconfig.

I also believe that the rest of GNOME-2.1.x should build OK using 
pango-1.0.5, if you really can't install fontconfig for some
reason.

Regards,
                                        Owen