ATK and Pango for GAIM
 

I barely know anything about linux, but I'm trying to install GAIM. In order to do that I need to have GTK which itself needs GLIB, ATK, and Pango installed. I got GLIB installed fine but I can't get the others to install. When I try to ./configure ATK it tells me:

checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed.
configure: error:
*** GLIB 2.0.0 or better is required. The latest version of
*** GLIB is always available from <linuxquestions complained about this url>

I don't understand this since I just installed the latest version of GLIB. I tried to ./configure Pango and it said:

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.

Does anyone know what's going on?

try installing all that stuff in /usr
with configure --prefix=/usr
do that with glib and gtk.

Thanks whansard, I got glib and atk to install, but pango is still giving me the same error. Is it telling me that there's another requirement to install pango?

i meant you should also configure pango the same as the glib and gtk.
i just didn't say it right. all the stuff that needs that glib and gtk should
be configured the same with the --prefix=/usr

nope, still not working. even when i do it with --prefix=/usr it still gives me the same error.

did you install the fontconfig thing it was complaining about.
pango is a font type app i think.


4 pango-devanagari-x.la 4 pango-hebrew-x.la
1 .. 12 pango-devanagari-x.so 16 pango-hebrew-x.so
4 pango-arabic-x.la 4 pango-gujarati-x.la 4 pango-myanmar-x.la
28 pango-arabic-x.so 12 pango-gujarati-x.so 12 pango-myanmar-x.so
4 pango-basic-x.la 4 pango-gurmukhi-x.la 4 pango-tamil-x.la
84 pango-basic-x.so 12 pango-gurmukhi-x.so 12 pango-tamil-x.so
4 pango-bengali-x.la 4 pango-hangul-x.la 4 pango-thai-x.la
12 pango-bengali-x.so 28 pango-hangul-x.so 16 pango-thai-x.so


pango has a few libraries and some modules like what i just posted.
that fontconfig is needed to set that stuff up for pango. if that's the
error message you're talking about.

No, I haven't installed it. Where can I get it?

Thanks whansard
the --prefix=/usr fixed my problem of pango not seeing glib on configure even though glib already installed.

now I can get on with installing new Gimp version :)

Cheers
Wayne

thanks. i needed that today.