Re: pango detection issue

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- Lytithwyn Eldohtar <lytithwyn gmail com> wrote:

> Hi, recently I wanted to try the Lives video editing system, which requires
> gtk 2.8.  My current version is 2.6, so I tried to upgrade.
> 
> I downloaded all of the pertinent tarballs: glib, atk, pango, cairo, and
> gtk.  I installed all the prerequisites, but when I ran configure for gtk,
> it said "checking for pango flags...package pango not found".  However,
> `pkg-config --modversion pango` returns 1.14.3 just like it should.
> Furthermore, applications like The Gimp began to fail as if it couldn't link
> properly at run time.  I had to uninstall the new version of pango and
> reinstall the packaged version (1.8) that came with my distro, Slackware
> 10.1.
> 
> I have run into problems similar to this in the past, and have taken up
> running configure with the parameter `prefix=/usr` to keep things from being
> installed in /usr/local.  This did not seem to help in this case.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> -- 
> chown lytithwyn:lytithwyn /* -R
> You got chownzed.
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--Sergei.

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