Re: problems compiling gtk+ 1.3.7

[horst freedict de]

On  8 Sep, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> horst freedict de writes:
> 
>> Hello, as I wanted to try the unicode features of gtk, I downloaded gtk
>> 1.3.7 (gtk+-all-1.3.7), and tried to compile it (on linux 2.4.0; xfree
>> 4.1.0), but failed:
>> 

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>> make[4]: *** [gdkdrawable-x11.lo] Error 1
>> 
>> 
>> Any hints, what I do wrong? 
>> My search did not produce valuable hints what is going wrong.
> 
> Pango currently requires FreeType 2.0.3 not 2.0.4. (Trouble is
> that they are somewhat source incompatible and it's hard to be
> compatible with both.) We'll hopefully get this fixed soon -
> for now, you can downgrade FreeType, or, to compile without
> FreeType support, you could do:
> 
>  FREETYPE_CONFIG=no ./configure
> 
> in Pango.
> 

I was not sucessfull applying this, but installing FreeType 2.0.3 helped
(I could not find anything FreeType related on my system)

Thanks,

horst

> Regards,
>                                         Owen

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