I've failed to get an installation of GTK+ correctly on debian 'cos of the same reason.
Everything installs succesfully, till I get to GTK+ which exits with the "configure: error: Pango Xft backend required for x11 target". And, I have Xft and freetype installed on the system.
-vc
----- Original Message ----- From: "Karina Orot" <rinadesu@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:46 PM
Subject: Installing Pango with the Xft backend
I apologize if this has been answered previously, but I couldn't find a "good" answer in my attempts to search. I am trying to install gtk+-2.6.4 (because it is the latest) on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 box. I need it so that I can then install the Nessus client. I've seen many postings of people having this same error I'm getting: "configure: error: Pango Xft backend required for x11 target" when trying to configure the gtk+ package...
I had previously installed pango with no problem as I thought only one backend was required. When gtk+ complained about the Xft backend though, I installed Xft.
I've read the pango configure script and was almost sure that I have the required packages installed. But I am confused about the difference btw Xft and "Xft2" - and whether I need to install a different package named "Xft2" to get the Xft backend to compile (or is Xft-2.X "Xft2?). I was not able to find an actual "Xft2" download. However, I do have the following installed, and in my PKG_CONFIG_PATH: Xft-2.0.4 Xft-devel-2.0.4 freetype-2.1.4-4.0 freetype-devel-2.1.4-4.0
I know the pango configure script exits successfully, but does not pick up on the Xft packages I have installed though. It skips past it in configure (I put in a debug statement just in case) and ends up showing just: configuration: backends: FreeType
I have confirmed that Xft.pc indeed exists (/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xft.pc) and that it is in my PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
The only other error I found during ./configure was a warning: configure: WARNING: X development libraries not found
Anyone have any suggestions on what else could be my problem?
Thanks in advance!
Karina
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