Re: Problems installing GTK+ 2.4

[Joe <joe cdtc co uk>]

Joe wrote:

> J. Ali Harlow wrote:
>
> > On 2004.04.24 20:00 Joe wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone
> > >
> > > I'm having a problem with the installation of GTK+ 2.4. I have 
> > > looked through the list archives, found a similar problem, but after 
> > > following the steps to solve it found that it didn't work for me.
> > >
> > > My problem is that when running ./configure for gtk, the message 
> > > 'error: pango 1.2.0 and Xft backend required' comes up. All of the 
> > > supporting packages for gtk are the latest versions, including pango 
> > > 1.4, xft 2.1.2.
> >
> >
> >
> > Including freetype?
> Yes, I have freetype 2.0.4, as well as render 0.8, xrender 0.8.3, atk 
> 1.6 and glib 2.4.
I have now fixed the problem - pango now compiled with the xft backend 
and gtk installed ok. The problem was with freetype - I checked the 
versions on the projects page on sourceforge, and found the version I 
had (see above) to be completely out of date. Downloaded version 2.1.4 
and everything worked fine.
Thanks anyway, Joe