Pango wants Xft

rjcarlson49 · 08-05-2005, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by __J
ok, first compile glib (with the --prefix=/usr), after it is successfully compiled and ready to install, go into Yast and remove the one that came with the system ( or use rpm -e <packagename> from the command line). before you run "make install" though, I suggest you go get checkinstall or another program to make an rpm for you. this will make administration of your new libs much easier ( upgrade and removal). to use checkinstall:

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
checkinstall ( instead of make install)

then install the rpm it makes.

everything else is pretty much straight forward, except for pango, MAKE SURE it list xft as a backend before compiling it ( it gives a summary at the end of configure). if not, you will need to adjust your PKG_CONFIG_PATH to accommodate this ( you don't need to install the xft package, you can use the one that came with X). post back if you need help with this.

The quote above is from a thread about 8 months ago. I have exactly the last problem stated. Pango does not see Xft. There is a libxft present (in /usr/lib, I think.) Nowhere on my system (FC3) is there an xft.pc. There is no /pkgconfig in X11R6/lib. I have searched my FC3 disks for packages. I installed one called x11-devel, no help. I have serached in vain for an xft package that looks right.

After much pain I discovered --prefix=/usr on my own. Why oh why does everything default to /usr/local and then not work?

Thanks, Bob

rjcarlson49 · 08-05-2005, 07:44 PM

I have now tried installing xft (via make). It says I am missing xrender, more specifically, xrender.pc.

Then I try xrender. It says I am missing x11.pc. There is no x11.pc on the system. I have installed the x11-devel rpm that I found on my FC3 disks. I have also tried ">yum install x11-devel. "No match for argument x11-devel".

I suspect that the lack of some devel package of x11 is at the root of all of this. My X11 is installed in /usr/X11R6. In /usr/lib, there is a link X11 to /usr/X11R6/lib. I have seen things that make me believe there should be a link /usr/include/X11 to /usr/X11R6/include. There is almost nothing in /usr/X11R6/include. I am certain there are things that should be there.

Cheers, Bob

rjcarlson49 · 08-05-2005, 08:31 PM

I must not have succeded when I thought I had installed the x11-devel package from the FC3 disks. When I did

>yum install xorg-x11-devel

I got the devel pkg, plus three dependencies underneath the devel package. "xorg-x11-devel" must be all lower case.

Now the includes and .pc files are clearly there. The .pc were installed in /usr/lib/pkgconfig (not /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig.) However, Pango keeps saying ...

checking for X... no
configure: WARNING: X development libraries not found
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config

The command I entered was

./configure -C -prefix=/usr -x-includes=/usr/include/X11 -x-libraries=/usr/lib/X11

I also tried other variations, including no x- options and using the actually directory names and not the link names. Same result every time.

Bob

rjcarlson49 · 08-05-2005, 08:35 PM

Damn, I deleted the -C and ran

./configure -prefix=/usr -x-includes=/usr/include/X11 -x-libraries=/usr/lib/X11

and it now sees the x libs. The cache option is apparently not smart enough to outguess me.

Bob

rjcarlson49 · 08-05-2005, 09:14 PM

OK, I think I am over the hump here, before anyone actually replied.

When I ran

./configure -prefix=/usr -x-libraries=/usr/lib/X11 -x-includes=/usr/include/X11

The ./configure ran and printed the right things at the end. However, the make failed.
The make worked when I ran this first:

./configure -prefix=/usr

I have now built pango and gtk+-2.0 and am in the process of building wxWidgets.
All this so I can build and test out rapidSVN.

Cheers, Bob

utopicdog · 04-24-2007, 02:54 PM

if you install pango from a tarball, it will compile but if you haven't got a recent fonconfig it wont use xft.

lazlow · 04-24-2007, 03:03 PM

Bob

Just so you are aware: Support for all versions of FC prior to FC5 has been dropped. Support for FC5 will be dropped as soon as Fedora 7 is released (May?).