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Xft support not found

I'm installing the kahakai windowmanager on Mandrake 9.0, and have gotten all dependancy issues resolved. The part that's stumping me is when I do kahakai's ./configure, it comes up with

Code:

checking for Xft... no

configure: error: Xft support not found.

I have the XFree86 development package installed, and when I do a locate on Xft I get

Code:

/etc/X11/XftConfig

/usr/share/fonts/otf/mdk/XftCache

/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/XftCache

/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft

/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/XftFreetype.h

/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h

/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1

/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1.1

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/XftCache

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/XftCache

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig

/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so

/usr/X11R6/man/man3/Xft.3x.bz2

What 'support' it looking for, and what can I do to make configure find the headers?
(I looked at the relevant section in the configure script, and it's running 'pkg-config xft' to see if Xft is there. Do I have to do something with pkg-config?)

I've tried the suggestion in the kahakai documentation ('export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig'), with no success.

Thanks,
-[a very frustrated] Laura

In Debian there is a separate package for the Xft developement looking at my listing of the package it looks like there could be a couple of files missing from what you have posted and the libxft2 (for non-developement use) that I have has similar files to some of them in the post, you may want to check to see if it this is the same in Mandrake.

Code:

>$ apt-file list libxft-dev

libxft-dev: usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h

libxft-dev: usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/XftCompat.h

libxft-dev: usr/bin/xft-config

libxft-dev: usr/lib/libXft.a

libxft-dev: usr/lib/libXft.la

libxft-dev: usr/lib/libXft.so

libxft-dev: usr/lib/pkgconfig/xft.pc

libxft-dev: usr/share/doc/libxft-dev/README

libxft-dev: usr/share/doc/libxft-dev/changelog.Debian.gz

libxft-dev: usr/share/doc/libxft-dev/changelog.gz

libxft-dev: usr/share/doc/libxft-dev/copyright

libxft-dev: usr/share/man/man3/Xft.3.gz

xlibs-dev: usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h

Code:

>$ apt-file list libxft2

libxft2: usr/lib/libXft.so.2

libxft2: usr/lib/libXft.so.2.1.1

libxft2: usr/share/doc/libxft2/README

libxft2: usr/share/doc/libxft2/changelog.Debian.gz

libxft2: usr/share/doc/libxft2/changelog.gz

libxft2: usr/share/doc/libxft2/copyright

hmmm...I'll check it out and let you know. Thanks :)

Aargh...nope, no good. I can see that I don't have libXft.so.2 and libXft.so.2.1. but I don't know if that's even the problem. If it is, I don't know where to get those files, since no package seems to provide them. Where the heck did they come from? (They're present on my Slackware system, but things come from different places on Slack).
I've got these:

[root@laptop Download]# rpm -qa | grep XFree86
XFree86-xfs-4.2.1-3mdk
XFree86-4.2.1-3mdk
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.1-3mdk
XFree86-devel-4.2.1-3mdk
XFree86-server-4.2.1-3mdk
XFree86-libs-4.2.1-3mdk
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.1-3mdk

if that helps.