Re: "Can't link to Pango"

[Bric <bric flight us>]

On 02/12/2014 10:30 PM, Kang Hu wrote:
> the error message is emitted here in configure.ac <http://configure.ac>:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> if $PKG_CONFIG --uninstalled $PANGO_PACKAGES; then
>         :
> else
>         gtk_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
>         LIBS="$PANGO_LIBS $LIBS"
>         AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC(pango_context_new, :, AC_MSG_ERROR([
> *** Can't link to Pango. Pango is required to build
> *** GTK+. For more information see http://www.pango.org]))
>         LIBS="$gtk_save_LIBS"
> fi
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> apparently the condition "pkg-config --uninstalled pango pangocairo" 
> is not true.
>
> the "--uninstalled" option passed to pkg-config instructs pkg-config 
> to find pango-uninstalled.pc instead of pango.pc.
> this option is mostly used for compilation/linking against uninstalled 
> packages.  see man pkg-config for more details.
> you can set PKG_CONFIG_DISABLE_UNINSTALLED env variable to disable 
> this behavior.

I just tried...

export PKG_CONFIG_DISABLE_UNINSTALLED=1

and

export PKG_CONFIG_DISABLE_UNINSTALLED=true

but ./configure still halts with the same "can't link to Pango" message.

Here is my config.log :

http://www.flight.us/misc/gtk_config.log.txt

thanks.

> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Bric <bric flight us 
> <mailto:bric flight us>> wrote:
>
>     I am trying to compile gtk+-3.11.5
>
>     during "./configure" I am getting:
>
>      Can't link to Pango. Pango is required to build
>     *** GTK+. For more information see http://www.pango.org
>
>     I have pango-1.36.2 installed
>
>
>     pkg-config --cflags "pango pangocairo" :
>
>     -pthread -I/usr/local/include/pango-1.0
>     -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include
>     -I/usr/local/include/cairo -I/usr/local/include
>     -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include/libpng12
>     -I/usr/local/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/pixman-1
>
>     -------------------
>
>     frustrating to no end.  Can someone please help?
>
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