Hello everyone,
I've just joined this list. I'm trying to get GTK+ to compile. I saw a
recent posting that discussed the very problem I'm having, but I still can't
quite get it to work.
This is the output from configure under gtk+-2.4.13.
configure: error: Pango 1.2.0 and Xft backend is required for x11 target
According to that earlier post on this list:
> As you can see, PangoXft is being built if X and FreeType are
> available and pkg-config is able to locate the Xft library.
So I decided I had to rebuild pango-1.4.1. First I installed a newer version
of freetype (the old one was ancient, circa 2000) and I reran configure, then
recompiled and reinstalled pango-1.4.1. At the end of configure it gave
this message:
configuration:
backends: FreeType X
So it looks like the Xft backend is not being created. My version of libXft
is from August 8 2001. One possibility is that it's too old. If this is
the case, can anyone tell me what version of libXft I need? I've got
Mandrake 8.0 on this system. (For weird reasons of hardware compatibility, I
cannot upgrade because newer versions of the kernel are unstable for my
motherboard.) I hope I can upgrade libXft without reinstalling a whole new
version of XFree86!
Or maybe it just isn't finding the libXft that I have. When I saved the
stderr output from running the configure scaript on pango, I got the
following messages:
Package xft was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xft.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xft' found
I don't have an xft.pc file anywhere, nor do I have a PKG_CONFIG_PATH
environment variable. I just installed pkgconfig, or I wouldn't have gotten
this far. But there's no man page, and very little documentation on that
script.
Any hints on what I should do next?
Thanks!
Vaughn
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