Re: [Gimp-developer] Error Message on Gegl - Last Git Master

[Ell <ell_se yahoo com>]

On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 14:00:28 -0300
Americo Gobbo <jag rabisco gmail com> wrote:

> I have installed my dependencies directly on my gimp folder because I 
> had different dependencies outdated on my distro.
> So, to install Pango 1.38 or higher is necessary to install also the 
> dependencies of this version?
> I have tried install in my 'make' environment the pango-1.38.1, but 
> without success and on my ./configure (final part) has these messages:
>
> checking whether the c++ linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports 
> shared libraries... yes
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... (cached) GNU/Linux ld.so
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> configure: creating ./config.lt
> config.lt: creating libtool
> checking for some Win32 platform... no
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking for HARFBUZZ... no
> checking for CoreText availability... no
> checking for CAIRO... yes
> checking which cairo font backends could be used... none
> configure: Disabling cairo support
> configure: error: *** Could not enable any backends.
> *** Must have at least one backend to build Pango.
> ---
> Can you help to resolve the steps to follow?

Looks like Pango can't find the cairo freetype backend, which is
strange because it's installed by the "libcairo2-dev" package on
Ubuntu.  If you're building cairo yourself, you might be missing some
dependencies required to build freetype support.

> On 26-03-2017 13:16, Ell via gimp-developer-list wrote:
> > Actually, there was an interval where gegl:text would get built
> > without checking this dependency, so it's possible that this is a
> > leftover from an earlier build (although that would be weird if
> > this problem only started recently.)  You can manually remove
> > "text.so" (and make sure that it's not getting reinstalled by a
> > GEGL "make install") if that's the case.  It shouldn't be a problem
> > for GIMP for now, but in the long run it's better to get it built.  
> Ok, now is Ok!
> After LGM I am thinking install a new release of my distro... the 
> current, sure is becoming a bit outdated ;-)
> To install the new release of Pango is not recommended on my 
> ubuntu-gnome 14.04?

You can probably install a new Pango relase on 14.04 if you're
persistent enough, but a shiny new distro is always better :)

--
Ell