Hi (somebody? anybody?), I've been working on a gtk+/glade/python based app for some time, and I seem to have run into a bit of a quagmire with regards to running a source-built gtk+2.4.0. My goal is to package gtk+/pango/glade/Python and all dependent libraries with my app, so that it can run on any machine, regardless of whether the proper dependencies are available on that machine. The key player in all these libraries is gtk+2.4.0, so all my dependencies are based on that version. Here's the situation: When I run my app ( which includes the gtk+ and dependent libs ), I get this error. No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig library is not correctly configured. You may need to edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual page and on http://fontconfig.org I look throughout the web, and found that many people experienced this error, but found no definitive answer on how to fix it. After some fiddling around, I added the following to my startup script: export FONTCONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/my_app/etc/fonts and the error did not occur anymore. However, I ran into this wall next. **: Cannot open font file for font Bitstream Vera Sans 10 ( and then there's a Segmentation fault ). If I move the Bitstream line in fonts.conf ( around ln 318 ), I get the error on the next font in the list ( in this case, Verdana ). <alias> <family>sans-serif</family> <prefer> <family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family> <family>Verdana</family> ... A good deal of my fonts are in here: /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir ...so I copied them into my app here -> "myapp/share/fonts/truetype". This is directories at the top of my "myapp/etc/fonts/(local.conf/fonts.conf) ( I've tried both...) <dir>/usr/lib/myapp/share/fonts</dir> <dir>/usr/lib/myapp/share/fonts/truetype</dir> <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir> <dir>/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/truetype</dir> <dir>/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts</dir> <dir>~/.fonts</dir> I've even tried adding /usr/lib/myapp/share/fonts/truetype to FONTCONFIG_PATH with no help there. I've tweaked things around for a few days with no progress. There have been numerous other postings for this on the web, but again, I didn't come across any fixes. From what I read, it looks like a Pango issue, having to do with Xft and Fontconfig. I tried the USE_XFT=0 fix and there was no change. Any ideas? Would a later version of Pango have fixed this? I tried using Fontconfig 2.3.0, and I get the same error. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! - Blair Here's what I'm building ( in approx order of building ): I built all these using --prefix=/home/me/my_app on a debian based machine using XFree86 4.2.1 with some 4.3 upgrades. pkgconfig-0.15.0 glib-2.4.0 atk-1.2.4 expat-1.95.7 zlib-1.2.2 freetype-2.1.7 fontconfig-2.2.2 render-0.8 xrender-0.8.2 xft-2.1.2 pango-1.4.0 Python-2.3 jpeg-6b tiff-v3.6.1 libpng-1.2.7 gtk+-2.4.0 libxml2-2.6.11 libglade-2.3.6 pygtk-2.0.0 Ok, so this all builds fine. I took extra care to ensure that the freetype/fontconfig/xft2 versions were the packaged versions, and not the ones used in XFree86 ( my XFree86 had fontconfig headers, but no libraries, etc. ) Any ideas?
