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Well, it wasn't the reason you couldn't compile it. Freetype-1.3.1 should compile just fine.
But according to it's initial error message it's missing Xlib.h, Xutil.h and cursorfont.h.

You'll have to urpmf those files and find out which devel to install. (I think they're in the same rpm.)

- Peder

Fontconfig wasnt in Mandrake Control Center under Software Install, so I downloaded and installed freetype, then I downloaded fontconfig untarred it, and when I did ./configure, here's what I got:

Code:

[simon@localhost fontconfig-2.2.3]$ ./configure

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for gawk... gawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no

checking for gcc... gcc

checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking whether we are cross compiling... no

checking for suffix of executables...

checking for suffix of object files... o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes

checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed

checking for style of include used by make... GNU

checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether ln -s works... yes

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed

checking for egrep... grep -E

checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld

checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes

checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r

checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B

checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all

checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E

checking for ANSI C header files... yes

checking for sys/types.h... yes

checking for sys/stat.h... yes

checking for stdlib.h... yes

checking for string.h... yes

checking for memory.h... yes

checking for strings.h... yes

checking for inttypes.h... yes

checking for stdint.h... yes

checking for unistd.h... yes

checking dlfcn.h usability... yes

checking dlfcn.h presence... yes

checking for dlfcn.h... yes

checking for g++... g++

checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes

checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes

checking dependency style of g++... gcc3

checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E

checking for g77... no

checking for f77... no

checking for xlf... no

checking for frt... no

checking for pgf77... no

checking for fort77... no

checking for fl32... no

checking for af77... no

checking for f90... no

checking for xlf90... no

checking for pgf90... no

checking for epcf90... no

checking for f95... no

checking for fort... no

checking for xlf95... no

checking for ifc... no

checking for efc... no

checking for pgf95... no

checking for lf95... no

checking for gfortran... no

checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no

checking whether  accepts -g... no

checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768

checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok

checking for objdir... .libs

checking for ar... ar

checking for ranlib... ranlib

checking for strip... strip

checking if gcc static flag  works... yes

checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no

checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC

checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes

checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes

checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes

checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no

checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so

checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate

checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes

checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes

checking whether to build shared libraries... yes

checking whether to build static libraries... yes

configure: creating libtool

appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool

checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld

checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes

checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes

checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC

checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes

checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes

checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes

checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so

checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate

checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes

appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes

checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes

checking for library containing opendir... none required

checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes

checking fcntl.h usability... yes

checking fcntl.h presence... yes

checking for fcntl.h... yes

checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes

checking for string.h... (cached) yes

checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes

checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes

checking for pid_t... yes

checking for vprintf... yes

checking for _doprnt... no

checking for geteuid... yes

checking for getuid... yes

checking for link... yes

checking for memmove... yes

checking for memset... yes

checking for mkstemp... yes

checking for strchr... yes

checking for strrchr... yes

checking for strtol... yes

checking for getopt... yes

checking for getopt_long... yes

checking for freetype-config... /usr/local/bin/freetype-config

checking for FT_Get_First_Char... yes

checking for FT_Get_Next_Char... yes

checking for FT_Get_BDF_Property... yes

checking for FT_Bitmap_Size.y_ppem... yes

checking expat.h usability... no

checking expat.h presence... no

checking for expat.h... no

checking xmlparse.h usability... no

checking xmlparse.h presence... no

checking for xmlparse.h... no

configure: error: cannot find expat library

[simon@localhost fontconfig-2.2.3]$

I just tried urpmi expat, everything already installed. It's almost like when Mandrake installs it installs to the wrong places.

Quote:

Originally posted by simeandrews
I just tried urpmi expat, everything already installed. It's almost like when Mandrake installs it installs to the wrong places.

Boy, this is turning into a nightmare for you, isn't it? :(
Perhaps try downloading expat from source and ./configure it.
Then go back and try freetype and see if that works.

I don't know why you're running into so many problems. :(

My computer has something against me lol! But seriously, over the last month even windows has gone all bad. Windoze was slow before, but NOW...

We have now gotten somewhere!

Fontconfig has been installed! My only problem is that my computer doesn't know that, I still have the same pango error. Maybe some paths have to be exported.

Quote:

Originally posted by simeandrews
We have now gotten somewhere!

Fontconfig has been installed! My only problem is that my computer doesn't know that, I still have the same pango error. Maybe some paths have to be exported.

Well, that's some progress! I don't know much about exporting paths and telling your computer where files are, but try running AS ROOT

Code:

ldconfig

It does something with updating libraries on your computer. See if that solves the problem.

Either you're not describing what you're doing accurately, or you haven't understood my previous posts.

If a compilation can't find something you need to install the -devel package.
Instead of compiling fontconfig you could have run 'urpmi libfontconfig1-devel'
(or possibly just 'urpmi fontconfig-devel')

So when it couldn't find the expat package you should've installed the expat-devel
(it might possibly be called libexpat-devel or something similar).

If you have compiled and installed something successfully into /usr you shouldn't have to
do anything, the system should find the files.
If you're compiling to /usr/local you have to make sure you have "/usr/local/lib" in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf

As for it not finding pango : make sure there is a /usr/lib/pkgconfig/pango.pc file. If not you probably
forgot to add --prefix=usr when you configured pango, and if so you need to run
'export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig' and fix /etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf as described.

- Peder

Thanks bunnadik, but I tried all of those and it said either everything already installed or package not found. I'll try the other things later, I have to go out right now.

All the devel packages you need are available with urpmi, so maybe your urpmi sources aren't properly configured.

Go to Easy Urpmi and check the box that says "show specific sources too" then click on the "proceed to step 2" button. Then choose a source contrib, source main, and source updates and click on the "proceed to step 3" button and copy and paste the commands it shows into a terminal as root.

Once you've got the sources configured you can open the package installer and search for "devel" and you will be able to find everything you need.

AHH! My cd and dvd drive have disappeared! Do I have to mount them, and if I do, how? This happened when I restarted my computer with my SD card in my drive which is installed in my system. When Linux turned on and found the card, it must have gotten confused, and now I have no CD and DVD in Linux, meaning I can't do urpmi.

BTW, ldconfig didnt work, should I have installed fontconfig to /usr?

Quote:

Originally posted by simeandrews
AHH! My cd and dvd drive have disappeared! Do I have to mount them, and if I do, how? This happened when I restarted my computer with my SD card in my drive which is installed in my system. When Linux turned on and found the card, it must have gotten confused, and now I have no CD and DVD in Linux, meaning I can't do urpmi.

BTW, ldconfig didnt work, should I have installed fontconfig to /usr?

For URPMI, you don't need your CD & DVD drives anymore because they grab all the packages off the URPMI internet sources. That way, it will be up-to-date (soft of) rather than a fixed CD. So there may be new packages.

So when you say that your CD & DVD drive is gone, do you mean in general? If that's the case, then copy/paste your /etc/lilo.conf file for us.

Things just seem to get more messier and messier!

Ok, wait for it, you arent going to beleive it...

IT WORKED!!! PANGO IS INSTALLED AFTER AT LEAST 1-2 WEEKS OF HARD WORK AND EXAMS IN THE MIDDLE! IT WORKED!!! After I did easyurpmi, I tried urpmi libfontconfig1-devel, and I'd like to say sorry to peder because he had the answer the whole time, I just didnt know how to follow it because urpmi didnt install it at first.

EDIT: I'm getting a few errors in GTK install, like Tiff loader not found (i fixed it) PNG loader (fixing it) I'll get back to you, this may not be over.

Here's my new error:

Code:

[simon@localhost gtk+-2.6.1]$ ./configure --prefix=/usr

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for gawk... gawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking for native Win32... no

checking for gcc... gcc

checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking whether we are cross compiling... no

checking for suffix of executables...

checking for suffix of object files... o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes

checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed

checking for style of include used by make... GNU

checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3

checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed

checking for egrep... grep -E

checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld

checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes

checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r

checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B

checking whether ln -s works... yes

checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all

checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E

checking for ANSI C header files... yes

checking for sys/types.h... yes

checking for sys/stat.h... yes

checking for stdlib.h... yes

checking for string.h... yes

checking for memory.h... yes

checking for strings.h... yes

checking for inttypes.h... yes

checking for stdint.h... yes

checking for unistd.h... yes

checking dlfcn.h usability... yes

checking dlfcn.h presence... yes

checking for dlfcn.h... yes

checking for g++... g++

checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes

checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes

checking dependency style of g++... gcc3

checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E

checking for g77... no

checking for f77... no

checking for xlf... no

checking for frt... no

checking for pgf77... no

checking for fort77... no

checking for fl32... no

checking for af77... no

checking for f90... no

checking for xlf90... no

checking for pgf90... no

checking for epcf90... no

checking for f95... no

checking for fort... no

checking for xlf95... no

checking for ifc... no

checking for efc... no

checking for pgf95... no

checking for lf95... no

checking for gfortran... no

checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no

checking whether  accepts -g... no

checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768

checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok

checking for objdir... .libs

checking for ar... ar

checking for ranlib... ranlib

checking for strip... strip

checking if gcc static flag  works... yes

checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no

checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC

checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes

checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes

checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes

checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no

checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so

checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate

checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes

checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes

checking whether to build shared libraries... yes

checking whether to build static libraries... no

configure: creating libtool

appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool

checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld

checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes

checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes

checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC

checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes

checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes

checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes

checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so

checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate

checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes

appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool

checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no

checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64

checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no

checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no

checking for some Win32 platform... no

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for strerror in -lcposix... no

checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config

checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.6.0    atk >= 1.0.1    pango >= 1.7.0... yes

checking BASE_DEPENDENCIES_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0

checking BASE_DEPENDENCIES_LIBS... -Wl,--export-dynamic -latk-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0

checking Whether to write dependencies into .pc files... no

checking for perl5... /usr/bin/perl5

checking for indent... no

checking for lstat... yes

checking for mkstemp... yes

checking for flockfile... yes

checking for sigsetjmp... yes

checking locale.h usability... yes

checking locale.h presence... yes

checking for locale.h... yes

checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes

checking libintl.h usability... yes

checking libintl.h presence... yes

checking for libintl.h... yes

checking for ngettext in libc... yes

checking for dgettext in libc... yes

checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes

checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt

checking for dcgettext... yes

checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt

checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext

checking for catalogs to be installed...  af am ar az az_IR be bg bn br bs ca cs cy da de el en_CA en_GB es et eu fa fi fr ga gl gu he hi hr hu ia id is it ja ko li lt lv mi mk ml mn mr ms nb ne nl nn no nso pa pl pt pt_BR ro ru rw sk sl sq sr sr@ije sr@Latn sv ta th tk tr uk uz uz@Latn vi wa yi zh_CN zh_TW

checking for extra flags to get ANSI library prototypes... none needed

checking for the BeOS... no

checking for extra flags for POSIX compliance... none needed

checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config

checking for GLIB - version >= 2.6.0... yes (version 2.6.1)

checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... (cached) yes

checking pwd.h usability... yes

checking pwd.h presence... yes

checking for pwd.h... yes

checking sys/time.h usability... yes

checking sys/time.h presence... yes

checking for sys/time.h... yes

checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes

checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes

checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes

checking return type of signal handlers... void

checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes

checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes

checking for getpagesize... yes

checking for working mmap... yes

checking for mallinfo... yes

checking for getresuid... yes

checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... yes

checking for fd_set... yes, found in sys/types.h

checking for wchar.h... yes

checking for wctype.h... yes

checking for iswalnum... yes

checking if iswalnum() and friends are properly defined... yes

checking for uxtheme.h... no

checking whether to build gmodulized gdk-pixbuf... yes

checking whether dynamic modules work... yes

checking for TIFFReadScanline in -ltiff... yes

checking tiffio.h usability... yes

checking tiffio.h presence... yes

checking for tiffio.h... yes

checking for jpeg_destroy_decompress in -ljpeg... yes

checking for jpeglib.h... yes

checking for jpeg_simple_progression in -ljpeg... yes

checking for libpng12... yes

checking pixbuf loaders to build...

checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes

checking return type of signal handlers... (cached) void

checking for x86 platform... yes

checking compiler support for MMX... yes

checking for freetype-config... /usr/bin/freetype-config

checking For sufficiently new FreeType (at least 2.0.1)... yes

configure: error: Xft Pango backend is required for x11 target

[simon@localhost gtk+-2.6.1]$

This is getting so annoying, but Im getting so close!

I figured out that the CD and DVD drives just disappeared off the desktop, they do actually work even in Linux.