Hi,

Right, I've managed to make GLIB and ATK and I'm now onto Pango - another error!

For this one, I've no even remote clue on how to solve it so any guidance would be appreciated ...

checking for X... no
configure: WARNING: X development libraries not found
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for fontconfig >= 1.0.1... Package fontconfig was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fontconfig.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'fontconfig' found
configure: WARNING: No fontconfig found, skipping tests for FreeType and Xft
configure: error: *** Didn't find any of FreeType, X11, or Win32.
*** Must have at least one backend to build Pango.

Thanks,
James.

hiya

well, the problem seems to be that pango needs X and pkg-config, but cant find them.

X seems to be the most important so we'll look at that first! Have you got X installed? You can get it in package form from your distro's website (you will need XFree86 or xorg). If its already installed, the libraries should be in /usr/X11/lib (or similar). If you know where X is, point the configure script to it in a prefix:

./configure --prefix=/LOCATION_OF_X


the font config thing should be easier (but isnt as crucial). Just install the font config package (or compile it) and make sure that the fontconfig.pc file is in that directory it was looking in (read the error messages). If you want to add anything to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (you can check its current contents with 'echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH') then use the export command:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/NEW_DIRECTORY:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

where new_directory is the directory you want to add.



basically, both these problems should be solved through installing fontconfig and X packages, but if this doesnt work or you have done this already you will need to get into the more complicated stuff above!!

Hi,

Ok, I decided to check out the X issue so I navigated to my /usr dir. I ran ls and it told me:

[root@localhost usr]# ls
bin etc include lib local sbin src X11R6
dict games kerberos libexec man share tmp

Now, I can see X11R6 in there - is that what I'm looking for?

EDIT:
A went into the directories a little deeper. I navigated into X11R6 and then into lib. I ran ls and got a list of various files and the directory X11. I cd'd into X11 and ran ls - this is what it gave me:

[root@localhost lib]# cd X11
[root@localhost X11]# ls
app-defaults etc locale rstart xdm xkb
bindings fonts Options system.mwmrc XErrorDB XKeysymDB
Cards fs proxymngr twm XF86Config xserver
doc lbxproxy rgb.txt x11perfcomp xinit xsm

Dunno if that's any help?

Thanks,
James

Anyone ?

For your system should be a package called something like XFree86-devel or xorg-devel available. This is what you need.

Hi,

Wow, thanks, I've got passed that stage now. It appears to be configuring fine, however when running make I get the following error fairly early in the procedure:]

pangofc-fontmap.c: In function `pango_fc_convert_weight_to_fc':
pangofc-fontmap.c:538: `FC_WEIGHT_NORMAL' undeclared (first use in this function)
pangofc-fontmap.c:538: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
pangofc-fontmap.c:538: for each function it appears in.)
make[4]: *** [pangofc-fontmap.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/james/pango-1.8.0/pango'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/james/pango-1.8.0/pango'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/james/pango-1.8.0/pango'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/james/pango-1.8.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@localhost pango-1.8.0]#

Any ideas?

Thanks,
James

Hi,

Well, I decided to emacs the ol' fontconfig.h and discovered FC_WEIGHT_NORMAL wasn't defined in there. I defined it and set it to the same value as FC_WEIGHT_NORMAL, then tryed making again - worked perfectly.

Thanks,
James