At 21:37 05.06.02 +0100, Adam D. Moss wrote: >> I already tried. I was very disappointed to see that you guys seem to be >> following in GNOME's footsteps, and suddenly requiring 3 times the amount of >> library dependancies. > >I feel your pain. > >This is as good a point to ask as any; in following the >latest incarnation of the crazy dep-chain I ran into a >dead-end finding the mysterious 'fontconfig' (fontconfig >is needed by pango is needed by gtk2 is needed by gimp). >Anyone know where I can find such a thing? I thought >that it sounded like it was probably part of pkgconfig >(pkgconfig is needed by... etc) but it doesn't seem to >be. > The info was on gtk-devel just a few days ago. I'm pasting it here while trying to no comment on cvs gtk/pango brokeness for other backends as X11 ... Hans At 11:44 04.06.02 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > >Pango HEAD now is using fontconfig and Xft2: > >Notes: > > * A 'fcpackage' source tarball containing both of these can > be found at: > > http://keithp.com/fonts/ > > * Red Hat RPMS can be found at: > > http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/xft-rpms/ > > * If you aren't interested in bleeding-edge Pango developement, you should > be using use the pango-1-0 branch of Pango. > > * Until we get a Win32 port of fontconfig, the pango-1-0 branch > will also be needed on Windows. > > * The fontconfig library is now used for both the Xft and FT2 > backends. mini-xft is gone. The font configuration file is > found in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf > -------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org ----------- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. -- Dilbert
