Re: Install problem on 2.4.0 - missing fontconfig

[Steffen Gutmann <gutmann ieee org>]

Hi,

I had the very same problem when installing gtk-2.3.4.

Most probably your fontconfig is tool old.  I solved the problem by 
installing latest XFree86 package 4.4.0.  You can find binaries for your 
architecture on  http://www.xfree86.org and the installation on my 
system (RedHat 7.1) went smooth (but remember to do backups first, 
especially xinitrc and XF68Config  I had to backup to get back to my 
gnome desktop).

Kind regards,

   Steffen

Dave Smith wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I had gtk+-2.2.4 installed and working on SuSE 8.1.  When upgrading to 
> gtk+-2.4.0, glib, pango, and atk all installed OK, but the configure failed 
> on gtk because the "pangoxft" package was not found.  The pango configure 
> complained that "fontconfig" was not found, but this same message also 
> appeared when building 2.2.4 (which built and ran OK).  I assume that the 
> changes in the gtk configure script were necessary to support new features.
>
> I tried to install "fontconfig", but I get a compilation error that:
> `PS_FontInfoRec' is undeclared.  I found some communications in the fontconfig 
> archives stating that there may be a conflict with the version of FreeType, 
> but there was nothing that really gave a solution.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem?  If so, what was your solution?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dave Smith
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