Re: Install problem on 2.4.0 - missing fontconfig

[Steffen Gutmann <gutmann ieee org>]

Hello Dave!

Yes fontconfig and freetype come with XFree86 4.4.0.  I just did a tar 
ball of /usr/X11R6 as backup.  The installation tool that comes with 
4.4.0 seems to pretty robust and first checks if you have all necessary 
packages downloaded.

Another thing I had to do after installing pango was that the pkgconfig 
file for pangoxft was missing a -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lfontconfig.  Did that 
happen to others, too?  Without it, linking fails and the configure 
script for gtk-2.4.0 bails out with an error that it needs pango 
installed.  On my system, X11R6 resides in /usr, and all other packages 
are under /usr/local.  I setup the PKG_CONFIG_PATH such that pkg-config 
looks into both directories, i.e. pkg-config --list-all prints the 
packages under both directories.  Is this an installation bug in pango?

Kind regards,

   Steffen

Dave Smith wrote:

> Hi Steffen,
>
> My system doesn't have any version of fontconfig installed.  Is a fontconfig 
> binary included as part of XFree86 4.4.0?  Do you happen to have a list of 
> all of the directories and files that need to be backed up and reinstalled on 
> the updated system (in addition to XF86Config  and xinitrc)?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dave 
>
> On Wednesday 17 March 2004 20:35, Steffen Gutmann wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had the very same problem when installing gtk-2.3.4.
> >
> > Most probably your fontconfig is too 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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