Re: build of gnome-2.0 fails for libgnomecanvas

[John Covici <covici ccs covici com>]

OK, thanks much -- I had to go and search the correct Debian package
for the freetype2 library (libfreetype6-dev)  and reconfigure pango,
but then things worked.

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Sander Vesik wrote:

>
> Its a fetaure of pango - you can have totally valid and succefull pango
> configurations that are not usable for gnome. Specificly, if it didn't
> find freetype2, it would not build pangoft2 which in turn is expected by
> libgnomecanvas.
>
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, John Covici wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi.  I am trying to build gnome-2.0 and when it gets to
> > libgnomecanvas it dies with the following problem:
> >
> > checking for pkg-config... /gnome/head/INSTALL/bin/pkg-config
> > checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.0 libart-2.0 >= 2.3.8 pango >= 1.0.0 pangoft2 >= 1.0.0... Package pangoft2 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pangoft2.pc'
> > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > No package 'pangoft2' found
> >
> > configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.0 libart-2.0 >= 2.3.8 pango >= 1.0.0 pangoft2 >= 1.0.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
> >
> > ERROR:libgnomecanvas: Cant autogen
> >
> >
> > Build failed on libgnomecanvas
> >
> > Now pango previously did work,(at least ig gave no errors)  so how can I fix it so it finds
> > pangoft2?
> >
> > I am using the vicious-build-scripts.
> >
> > Any assistance would be appreciated.
> >
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>
> 	Sander
>
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         John Covici
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