Re: building gtk+ 3 on rhel6

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Jan 13, 2013, at 5:25 PM, Ted Toth <txtoth gmail com> wrote:

> I'm trying to build gtk+ 3 on RHEL6 but have run into a problem while
> following the instruction on
> http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-building.html when building
> pango. The glib build went fine but pango is a problem:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk
>      :
> 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.
> 
> cairo and cairo-devel are installed and as best I can tell the font
> backends are included. Anyone done this yet? If so what did you have
> to do to get by this issue.

Dif you build harfbuzz, freetype, and fontconfig?

Regards,
John Ralls