More Pango/GTK+ Build Problems

[Eric Mader <mader jtcsv com>]

Hello,

Whew! I've had a tough day fighting w/ the Pango build system... I still 
can't get everything to build, but here's what I've learned so far:

In gtk+/configure.in PANGO_PACKAGES is defined once as "pangox pangoxft" 
and once as "pangoxft pangox" It looks like it needs to always be defined 
as "pangox pangoxft" in order to get the --cflags in the correct order. 
Here's what pkg-config says:

[emader doramichan gtk+]$ pkg-config --cflags pangoxft pangox
  -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include 
-I/usr/local/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include 
-I/usr/include/freetype2
[emader doramichan gtk+]$ pkg-config --cflags pangox pangoxft
  -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include 
-I/usr/local/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/local/include 
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include
[emader doramichan gtk+]$

Notice that in the first one, /usr/X11R6/include is *before* 
/usr/local/include. This causes pangoxft.h to find the wrong version of 
Xft.h and complain about a bad version number.

I've been trying to get two builds working at once, one on RedHat7.2 and 
one on RedHat7.3 (I don't recommend this unless you're a thrill seeker :-)

It seems that RH7.3 installs a version of pkg-config. This had two 
consequences I didn't expect:

1) I had to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig to see the correct 
set of .pc files

2) There is a /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 file installed which contains a 
version of the PKG_CHECK_CONFIG macro - this gets some of the Makefile's 
and configure files very upset. I had to rename it to pkg.not-m4 to get all 
the autogen.sh scripts to run without complaining

Also, on RH7.3 the pango samples don't compile; they get a lot of error 
messages having to do with Qt; I assume that the version installed on RH7.3 
is too new... Does anyone have a good work-around for this?

Thanks,
Eric Mader