Re: Installing Pango with the Xft backend

[Viraj Chatterjee <vchatter adobe com>]

Though Karina's problem got solved 'cos she didn't need to install the 
latest GTK+ package, but this confusion about Xft and Xft2 and which one is 
required and where to get a good installation of GTK+ 2.6 is really a pain 
at times.

I've failed to get an installation of GTK+ correctly on debian 'cos of the 
same reason.

Everything installs succesfully, till I get to GTK+ which exits with the 
"configure: error: Pango Xft backend required for x11 target". And, I have 
Xft and freetype installed on the system.

-vc

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karina Orot" <rinadesu gmail com>
To: <gtk-list gnome org>; <gtk-i18n-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:46 PM
Subject: Installing Pango with the Xft backend


> I apologize if this has been answered previously, but I couldn't find
> a "good" answer in my attempts to search. I am trying to install
> gtk+-2.6.4 (because it is the latest) on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 3
> box. I need it so that I can then install the Nessus client. I've seen
> many postings of people having this same error I'm getting:
> "configure: error: Pango Xft backend required for x11 target" when
> trying to configure the gtk+ package...
>
> I had previously installed pango with no problem as I thought only one
> backend was required. When gtk+ complained about the Xft backend
> though, I installed Xft.
>
> I've read the pango configure script and was almost sure that I have
> the required packages installed. But I am confused about the
> difference btw Xft and "Xft2" - and whether I need to install a
> different package named "Xft2" to get the Xft backend to compile (or
> is Xft-2.X "Xft2?). I was not able to find an actual "Xft2" download.
> However, I do have the following installed, and in my PKG_CONFIG_PATH:
> Xft-2.0.4
> Xft-devel-2.0.4
> freetype-2.1.4-4.0
> freetype-devel-2.1.4-4.0
>
> I know the pango configure script exits successfully, but does not
> pick up on the Xft packages I have installed though. It skips past it
> in configure (I put in a debug statement just in case) and ends up
> showing just:
> configuration:
>           backends: FreeType
>
> I have confirmed that Xft.pc indeed exists (/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xft.pc)
> and that it is in my PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
>
> The only other error I found during ./configure was a warning:
> configure: WARNING: X development libraries not found
>
> Anyone have any suggestions on what else could be my problem?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Karina
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