Pango and Freetype incompatibility

[William Trenker <wdtrenker yahoo ca>]

Hello,

I'm trying to get Pango (pango-1.0.5.tar.gz) to build with FreeType (freetype-2.1.3.tar.gz).  I'm getting errors like this from make (after doing ./configure):

pangoxft-font.c: In function `pango_xft_real_render':
pangoxft-font.c:317: structure has no member named `u'
pangoxft-font.c:330: structure has no member named `u'
pangoxft-font.c: In function `load_fallback_font':
pangoxft-font.c:717: structure has no member named `u'
pangoxft-font.c: In function `pango_xft_font_get_font':
pangoxft-font.c:766: structure has no member named `u'
pangoxft-font.c: In function `pango_xft_font_get_face':
pangoxft-font.c:842: structure has no member named `core'
pangoxft-font.c:845: structure has no member named `u'

I've noticed similar problems described in the archives for this list. The solution provided is to revert to the old Xft package.  Does that still apply?

(Here is the prior messsage where that advice was given:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2002-June/msg00001.html)

My ultimate goal is to build the well-known bluefish html editor which, right now, is giving this sort of error during make:

/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Seek_Stream'
/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Get_Short'
/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Forget_Frame'
/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Access_Frame'
/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Get_Long'

Right now I'm stuck.  Can you suggest a compatible combination of recent versions of the Pango and FreeType packages?  Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Bill