Re: Error in compiling GTK+

[Carlo Agrusti <carlo ag tin it>]

Kendl Tibor said the following on 20/02/04 17.08:

> Dear list members GTK team!
>
> I've tried to compile gtk+-3.2.3 source code from the tarball,

2.2.3?

> but the ./configure script halted with an error 'Pango.1.2.0 and Xft 
> backend is required for x11 target'. Previously i've installed 
> pango-1.3.2, atk-1.5.3 and glib-3.2.3 and runned ldconfig to refresh 
> the libpath cache. Please help me find out what have i forgotten. The 
> compilation attempt have been made on a P4 machine with Debian Linux 
> 3.0r2 and gcc-2.95. In attachment i send the messages of the 
> ./configure script
>
> Yours
> Tibor Kendl
>
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> checking for libpng12... no
>  

I'm not sure, but why don't you try to solve this dependency?

> checking for png_read_info in -lpng... yes
> checking png.h usability... yes
> checking png.h presence... yes
> checking for png.h... yes
> checking for png_structp in png.h... yes
> checking pixbuf loaders to build... 
> checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
> checking return type of signal handlers... (cached) void
> checking for x86 platform... yes
> checking compiler support for MMX... yes
> checking for freetype-config... /usr/bin/X11/freetype-config
> checking For sufficiently new FreeType (at least 2.0.1)... yes
>  
cheers,
Carlo