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

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-11-18 at 09:12 -0500, Partha Bagchi wrote:
>> 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");
>> [/code]
>
> I'm going to assume that you build gimp master against latest greatest.
You assume correctly. :)
>
> Try also bulding harfbuzz, that's needed now, then rebuild from cairo,
> or pango, not sure.
I am going to assume that we need the new harbuzz.
>
> --mitch
Thanks Mitch!

Partha