Re: Gtk/DFB requires pango cairo

["Mike Emmel" <mike emmel gmail com>]

Hmm then it might be they have cairo but not the directfb version ?

Somehow its fairly common for people to build a pango that does not
work with directfb.
They don't tell me how they manage to do it however :)

On 9/14/07, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> [ meant to send this to the list, resending ]
>
> On 9/14/07, Mike Emmel <mike emmel gmail com> wrote:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476823
> >
> > This happens quite a bit gdk directfb requires the pango/cairo backend.
> >
> > First I don't know the best way to check pango for a particular backend.
> >
> > Next considering cairo is now required for gtk I'd suggest that the pango build
> > have cairo on by default and require that you have to disable it on purpose.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the situation ... GTK+ hasn't built since
> GTK+-2.8.0 unless Pango includes pango/cairo; if pkg-config --exists
> pangocairo fails, the configure script bails with:
>
>        AC_MSG_ERROR([
> *** Pango not found. Pango built with Cairo support is required
> *** to build GTK+. See http://www.pango.org for Pango information.
> ])
>
> - Owen
>