Re: gtk+-2.2.0 ./configure error about pango 1.2.0

[Olexiy Avramchenko <olexiy irtech cn ua>]

busmanus wrote:

> When I am trying to configure the source code of gtk+-2.2.0,
> I get the following error:
>
>
> checking X11/extensions/XShm.h... yes
> checking Pango flags... -I/usr/local/include/pango-1.0 
> -I/usr/include/freetype2
> -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 
> -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include   -Wl,--export-dynamic 
> -L/usr/local/lib -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 
> -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
> configure: error:
> *** Can't link to Pango. Pango is required to build
> *** GTK+. For more information see http://www.pango.org
> debian:/usr/local/src/abiword/gtk+-2.2.0#
>
>
> I recompiled pango at least three times, with LD_LIBRARY_PATH directed
> to /usr/local/lib, where glib 2.2.0 and almost all dependencies are
> installed, I installed all the external dependencies, although I
> originally wanted to keep the earlier versions already on my system,
> but nothing is of any use. Glib 2.2.0, pango 1.2.0 an atk 1.2.0 
> compile fine, and the configure script for gtk finds them all first, 
> but a few hundred lines later it ends up all the same with this very 
> error
> message.
>
> I even thought that I may have linked pango statically by accident, 
> but the help of the pango configure script writes, that
> dinamic linking is the default, and I am sure I didn't change that.
>
> I was trying some of the suggestions in your archive, but they
> didn't help, although some cases looked quite similar at first sight.
>
> I am not a developer, I basically got into this compilation business
> because of some multilingual software that depends on the new stable
> gtk.
>
> My system is Debian Woody r1 on an old Pentium I (MMX) at 225 MHz.
>
> Can any of you help?

If my memory is not lying I had a similar problem some time ago - the 
reason was freetype library. I had a new headers and lib in /usr/X11R6 
and old ones in /usr. Check this out and remove old version. Hope this help.

   Olexiy