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:
>
> > pkg-config --modversion xft
> > (i have 2.1.2 on debian)
> >
> > You should have something like libfreetype6-dev on the system.
>
>
> Ugh.  The problem this time was that I didn't have
> /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig in $PKG_CONFIG_PATH... My head is exploding with
> all the variables I hafta set to make this stuff work...
>
> I don't really use packages on this system, by the way, I am (mostly)
> building everything from scratch, so all the headers are already on the
> system.  FT2 I had to download to successfully build the sources from
> X.org, so it's here... *shrugs*.
>
> I'm attempting another build here, now that 'make' is running...
>
> Okay.  So it finally built successfully... *sigh*  That took way too long
> to do.  However, I had to change one file to make this work.... I don't
> recall exactly how to use 'diff' for sure at the moment, and I don't know
> how many files would need changed to make things work with the latest
> FreeType, however, on this system, it wouldn't build unless the line that
> read:
>
> #include <freetype/freetype.h>
>
> ... was commented out and replaced with:
>
> #include <ft2build.h>
> #include FT_FREETYPE_H
>
> Seems fairly stupid to me, because I don't see why you'd want to do that.
> Anyway, the file that I had to do that in was pango-ot.h from the Pango
> header files that were installed in /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango when I
> re-installed that.
>
> Someone who has access to Pango's centralized source base may want to make
> that change in their code and retar the distro... Just an idea.

I was doing the same thing today putting those lines in to try building
gtk 2.2.4 with the newer libfreetype6-dev (2.1.7 instead of an older one
like 2.0.9). Are you sure you were building gtk 2.4.3?
With the newer libfreetype6-dev (2.1.7), gtk 2.4.3 build doesn't need
those header file mods.