Re: building gtk+ 3 on rhel6

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, Ted Toth wrote:

> I'm trying to build gtk+ 3 on RHEL6 but have run into a problem while
> following the instruction on
> http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-building.html when building
> pango. The glib build went fine but pango is a problem:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk
>      :
> checking for CoreText availability... no
> checking for CAIRO... yes
> checking which cairo font backends could be used... none
> configure: Disabling cairo support
> configure: error: *** Could not enable any backends.
> *** Must have at least one backend to build Pango.
>
> cairo and cairo-devel are installed and as best I can tell the font
> backends are included. Anyone done this yet? If so what did you have
> to do to get by this issue.

What pango version are you trying to build?

One oddity with pango is that the current (apparently "stable") 
release sometimes depends on "release candidate" versions of third 
party software. Right now, to build current pango you need an rc 
version of fontconfig. To avoid that, drop back to the previous 
pango release. (Pango's configure script is pretty tight-lipped 
about dependency problems, which is not very helpful.)

Allin Cottrell