On Sun, 2012-11-18 at 09:12 -0500, Partha Bagchi wrote:
> A new issue seems to have manifested itself on the Mac. When I recently
> compiled 2.9, it would not power up and gave me the following error:
>
> "You are using a Pango that has been built against a cairo that lacks the
> freetype font backend"
>
> Of course, my cairo is built with the freetype font backend. Right now I
> have fixed this in the following way:
>
> In app/text/gimpfont.c, I changed the following
>
> [code]
> fontmap = pango_cairo_font_map_new_for_font_type (CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_FT);
> if (! fontmap)
> g_error ("You are using a Pango that has been built against a cairo "
> "that lacks the Freetype font backend");
> [/code]
I'm going to assume that you build gimp master against latest greatest.
Try also bulding harfbuzz, that's needed now, then rebuild from cairo,
or pango, not sure.
--mitch
> to
>
> [code]
> fontmap = pango_cairo_font_map_new_for_font_type (CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_FT);
> if (! fontmap)
> fontmap = pango_cairo_font_map_get_default ();
>
> /* g_error ("You are using a Pango that has been built against a cairo "
> "that lacks the Freetype font backend");
> */
> [/code]
>
> Has anyone else gotten this error or know why it is suddenly cropping up?
>
> Thanks,
> Partha
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