Re: Pango build fails - no Cairo font backends found

[Ryan Schmidt <pango-2013b ryandesign com>]

On Jun 5, 2013, at 19:28, Alex Kerr wrote:

> I have installed very latest versions (as of writing) of: Ubuntu 32 bit server edition, Freetype, Graphite2 
> (I need to use Graphite fonts as well as OpenType ones), GLib, Cairo, Harfbuzz, Fontconfig
> All installed fine. Doing a ./configure on latest Pango (1.34.1) goes fine until: (exact output shown)
>
> checking for HARFBUZZ... yes
> checking for FONTCONFIG... no
> no
> 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.
>
> Is Fontconfig the cairo font backend it thinks isn't there? Doing a "dpkg --get-selections" lists 
> fontconfig, fontconfig-config, libfontconfig1:i386 and libfontconfig1-dev as all being installed.

You need fontconfig 2.10.91 or newer.