Re: Problems with building GTK+ 2.4.3

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > Make sure pkg-config can find its .pc files in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.
> >
> > Add this path in the shell: PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:
> >                                                      /usr/lib/pkgconfig"
> That had been done already... *sigh*  I probably should've mentioned that.
> That was one of the first things that I'd come across reading someone
> else's other scenerio.
>
> I've since then decided to re-try this whole thing yet again.  So I
> rebuilt everything, thinking that maybe there was a problem using
> /usr/local as my prefix -- so I changed that to /usr and rebuilt
> everything.  Now, GTK+ 2.4.3 doesn't get past ./configure, complaining:
>
> checking For sufficiently new FreeType (at least 2.0.1)... yes
> configure: error: Xft version 2 is required for x11 target
> fd0man mike:~/gtk-stuff/gtk+-2.4.3$
>
> Xft version 2 is on the system - and in fact, it didn't die before from
> this error!
>
> What in the world is wrong with this?  It seems that the X Windowing
> System should've been the hardest thing on this system to compile, and
> GTK+ is quickly proving that wrong...

pkg-config --modversion xft
(i have 2.1.2 on debian)

You should have something like libfreetype6-dev on the system.