[Gimp-developer] Gimp 2.9 font error on the Mac (Snow Leopard 64bit)

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

A new issue seems to have manifested itself on the Mac. When I recently compiled 2.9, it would not power up and gave me the following error:

"You are using a Pango that has been built against a cairo that lacks the freetype font backend"

Of course, my cairo is built with the freetype font backend. Right now I have fixed this in the following way:

In app/text/gimpfont.c, I changed the following

[code]

 fontmap = pango_cairo_font_map_new_for_font_type (CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_FT);

  if (! fontmap)

    g_error ("You are using a Pango that has been built against a cairo "

             "that lacks the Freetype font backend");

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to

[code]

  fontmap = pango_cairo_font_map_new_for_font_type (CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_FT);

  if (! fontmap)

      fontmap = pango_cairo_font_map_get_default ();

/*    g_error ("You are using a Pango that has been built against a cairo "

             "that lacks the Freetype font backend");

*/

[/code]

Has anyone else gotten this error or know why it is suddenly cropping up?

Thanks,

Partha