Re: Garnome 2.5.92: Xft backend error when building gtk+

[Jens Bech Madsen <jbm oncable dk>]

On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 11:25 +0200, Olivier Lecarme wrote:
> I installed all the development libraries mentioned on the Garnome page.
> However, building fails for gtk+ with the following message :
> 
> ...
> checking return type of signal handlers... (cached) void
> checking for x86 platform... yes
> checking compiler support for MMX... yes
> checking for freetype-config... /usr/bin/freetype-config
> checking For sufficiently new FreeType (at least 2.0.1)... yes
> configure: error: Pango 1.2.0 and Xft backend is required for x11 target
> make[6]: *** [configure-work/main.d/gtk+-2.4.0/configure] Erreur 1
> make[6]: quittant le ripertoire + /home/src/garnome-2.5.92/platform/gtk+
> ;
> make[5]: *** [../../platform/gtk+/cookies/main.d/install] Erreur 2
> ...
> 
> Trying to understand the configure script does not help me. I found on
> the Web a discussion about this matter in the building of Pango, but
> should not Garnome solve it automatically?

Install bootstrap/xft, then 'make clean' in platform/pango, then try
again. You need pango compiled with Xft backend as it says above.


Cheers,
Jens