Re: Pango / Xrender / Red Hat 8.0

[Bob Kashani <bobk ocf berkeley edu>]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 17:17 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> I am trying to build Garnome 2.10.2 for a group of benighted souls stuck
> on Red Hat 8.0 (my next trick will be building it for another group of
> almost-as-benighted souls stuck on Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 3).
> 
> 
> I've read the README, read the web docs, etc. etc.  When I try to build,
> the build fails almost immediately when building platform/pango with
> this error compiling pango/pangoxft-font.c:
> 
>     ../pango/pangoxft-render.h:91: parse error before "XTrapezoid"
> 
> Google didn't net me very much at all (surprising!) but there was
> someone on Sun who said they had a problem because an OpenWindows
> version of Xrender.h was being found.  I checked the RH8 vs. my Debian
> "sarge" box and sure enough, the Sarge system had Xrender.h CVS version
> 1.19 while the RH8 box only had version 1.9, and the older version
> didn't have an XTrapezoid struct.
> 
> 
> So, I snuck over to the bootstrap/xrender directory, feeling quite
> unclean given all the README warnings, and ran "make install" there,
> which worked fine and installed a new version of the library and the
> header files into my Garnome installation area... good stuff!!
> 
> Then I went back and ran "make clean" in platform/pango, then re-ran
> "make paranoid-install" from desktop...
> 
> and...
> 
> It failed exactly the same way.
> 
> Looking at the compile line I can see that there are explicit references
> to -I/usr/include/X11R6 that appear BEFORE the garnome include
> directories, and this is causing the wrong Xrender.h to be found.  This
> seems like a problem to me: how do I convince the build system that it
> should always put the garnome include directories on the compile line
> BEFORE any system directories?
> 
> 
> This is my compile line for this file:
> 
>   cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"Pango\" -DPANGO_ENABLE_BACKEND -DPANGO_ENABLE_ENGINE -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/opt/garnome/etc\" -DLIBDIR=\"/opt/garnome/lib\" -DMODULE_VERSION=\"1.4.0\" -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT -DG_DISABLE_CHECKS -pthread -I/opt/garnome/include/glib-2.0 -I/opt/garnome/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/Xft2 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I.. -I/opt/garnome/include -I/opt/garnome/include -L/opt/garnome/lib -O2 -pipe -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -Wall -MT pangoxft-font.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/pangoxft-font.Tpo -c pangoxft-font.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/pangoxft-font.o
> 
> 
> Help?

What I used to do when running an older version of Red Hat was set the
GARNOME path ahead of the system path in ~/.bash_profile.

Try this in your ~/.bash_profile

PATH=/opt/garnome:$PATH

Bob

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Bob Kashani
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome