Re: [gtk-osx-users] gtk2 failing to build + no pangoft2

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Jan 11, 2020, at 3:00 PM, David Cooke <djcooke wintree plus com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your swift response.  Gtk3 was installed before I decided against
> migrating the program.
>
> The last thing I did was to run the following:
>
> jhbuild build -f meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap meta-gtk-osx-freetype
> meta-gtk-osx-core
>
> Isn't this equivalent to what you are suggesting I should have done?  But
> gtk failed to build this time, after the initial installation had been
> successful.
>
> I have also tried jhbuild -f pango after installing freetype, and still
> pangoft2 was not installed.
>
> The first problem now is how to get gtk installed - do I need somehow to
> clean up the build environment?
>
> I have reinstalled pango several times after freetype was installed, and
> still have been unable to get pangoft2.

Look at the build output and see if pango in fact reconfigured. If it did, look at its config.log to see why 
it's not finding freetype2.

Regards,
John Ralls