Re: Xft not found

[Steven Usdansky <usdanskys rocketmail com>]

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 09:40, Jeff Waugh wrote:
    <quote who="Steven Usdansky">
    
    > 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 :)
    
    No, you probably don't have the X devel packages installed. You need those.
    
    - Jeff
    
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Guess I hit reply (to Jeff) rather than reply-all on this one, so, with
apologies to Jeff, I'll repeat my reply to him before divulging my
"solution."  

      I've got both XFree86-devel-4.2.0-52 and
Xft-devel-1.9.1.020607.1058-3 installed (from rpm's).  I even tried
updating my rpm's as follows (but got the same error as above):
   Xft-1.9.1.020626.1517-2.i386.rpm 
   Xft-devel-1.9.1.020626.1517-2.i386.rpm
   fontconfig-0.0.1.020626.1517-2.i386.rpm
   fontconfig-devel-0.0.1.020626.1517-2.i386.rpm 
   freetype-2.1.2-2.i386.rpm 
   freetype-devel-2.1.2-2.i386.rpm 
   freetype-utils-2.1.2-2.i386.rpm 

   It it a location problem?  Exploring, I came across the following in
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1  and  /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1.2 but
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft is empty.  However, /usr/include/Xft2/X11/Xft
contains two files; Xft.h and XftCompat.h.

I tried setting up links but couldn't get them to work - not being sure
of what I was doing, I may not have done the right thing.  It turns out
the problem is actually in the gtk+ configure file.  I excised a few
lines from the file garnome-0.12.2/gnome/gtk+/work/gtk+-2.0.5/configure
(lines 14555-14569 and line 14572) so that gtk+ thinks I don't have
Xft.  Compilation proceeds even as I send this off. 

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