Hi Steffen, After some work, I found: * XFree86 4.4.0 does not include fontconfig. * GTK+-2.4.0 still would not load (no fontconfig). * 4.4.0 obsoleted my hand edited "/etc/X11/XF86Config" file (dual screens, keyboards, mice, etc.) and it would take some time to figure out how to create a proper working version in the 4.4.0 format. * 4.4.0 also modified such things as the startup procedure, the printer setup, various preferences, etc. * Thank goodness for the recommended backup procedures in the 4.4.0 documentation so that the original setup could be restored quickly. * I was subsequently able to load fontconfig 2.2.2 on the original setup after first loading freetype 2.1.4 (2.2.2 is apparently sensitive to the freetype version - not too old and not too new). This fixed the missing fontconfig problem in the pango configuration script, but it then complained that it couldn't find Xft. * Xft doesn't seem to be available by itself. Given that others have a similar problem with a missing Xft system (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2004-March/msg00153.html) I have decided to stick with 2.2.4 until I have time to upgrade Linux to a newer distribution that includes the required files - if the system's basic setup/configuration needs to be redefined anyway, why not upgrade everything at the same time? Does anyone know which Linux distributions will load 2.4.0 starting from a clean installation? Best regards, Dave On Thursday 18 March 2004 21:17, Steffen Gutmann wrote: > 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 > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > >http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
