Re: Xft not found

[Sean Proctor <sproctor ccs neu edu>]

I had this problem as well.  For me, the best solution was editing
gnome/pango/Makefile and removing the freetype dependency.

Sean

On 8 Jul 2002, Steven Usdansky wrote:

> Here's my problem:
>
> ==> Building gnome/atk as a dependency
> ==> Building gnome/pango as a dependency
> ==> Running configure in work/gtk+-2.0.5
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>
> <snip>
>
> configure: error: pangoxft Pango backend found, but Xft not found
> make[7]: *** [configure-work/gtk+-2.0.5/configure] Error 1
>
> Looking back through the message list I see that sho tamashii was advised,
> "Remove the freetype installed with your system - GARNOME installs its own."
>
> Is this what I need to do? I'm running the new Redhat beta (7.3-92) with its own
> Gnome2 and I don't want to mess up my system any more than already have :)
>
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