Re: GTK Install Problem (..Xft backend is required)

[Tim Johnson <tim johnsons-web com>]

* Sven Neumann <sven gimp org> [031118 12:33]:

Thanks Sven -- 
    I'm a little less confused now, however:

    I'm afraid that I will need some more information.
The pango README makes numerous to references to Xftp but:

* Sven Neumann <sven gimp org> [031118 12:33]:
> you will have to make sure that Pango was compiled with the Xft

 there is no explicit information on _how to_ compile Xft
 with pango.

When I run ./configure --help, I'm really not clear from the
text printed whether Xft is a 'feature', 'package' or whatever.
(I'm CC'ing this to the author, perhaps more information could
 but included on this matter for the newbies (like myself))

 regards
 tim

> Hi,
> 
> Tim Johnson <tim johnsons-web com> writes:
> 
> > More problems with contingencies here. :-)
> > When running configure for gtk+-2.3.0 (on RH 9.0):
> > I get the following config error message
> > 
> > "
> > Pango 1.2.0 and Xft backend is required for x11 target
> > "
> > 
> > Pange 1.2.5 is installed. Below is snipped from pango.pc
> > ########################################################
> > pango_module_version=1.2.0
> > 
> > Name: Pango
> > Description: Internationalized text handling
> > Version: 1.2.5
> > ########################################################
> > Paths
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib
> > 
> > and it looks like Xft shared objects are at /usr/X11R6/lib
> > Does this mean that GTK wants pango 1.2.0 instead of 1.2.5?
> 
> No, it explicitely wants pangoxft, at least for the X11 target. So
> you will have to make sure that Pango was compiled with the Xft
> backend. There should be a pangoxft.pc file.
> 
> 
> Sven

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