I'm installing gtk+-2.8.12 from source, and it barks at me, for the following reason:

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for BASE_DEPENDENCIES... configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.8.5 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.9.0 cairo >= 0.9.2) were not met.
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.


Configure claims that I don't have glib, atk, pango or cairo, but I downloaded those, built and installed them! I tried changing my PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable to /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ and /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/ but with no luck. Same error. I've tried to install gtk+ a number of times, and always gotten frustrated cause I keep running into this. I feel like it's a simple problem, I just can't get my head around it. Anyone out there have any advice?

Thanks.

Point of interest: The way I'm building things is:

./configure
make
sudo make install

If you built the dependencies (glib2, atk, cairo, pango is the correct order) using the ./configure without any options, then they are all installed under /usr/local/lib. So before running ./configure for gtk, run:

So actually, it boiled down to not having pango installed. I re-tried all my installations (glib, atk, cairo, pango) and it barked at me for pango. Message follows:

make[2]: */bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o pango-cairoview cairoview.o renderdemo.o argcontext.o ../pango/libpango-1.0.la ../pango/libpangoft2-1.0.la ../pango/libpangocairo-1.0.la -L/usr/local/lib -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -L/usr/local/lib -lcairo -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o .libs/pango-cairoview cairoview.o renderdemo.o argcontext.o ../pango/.libs/libpango-1.0.so -L/usr/local/lib ../pango/.libs/libpangoft2-1.0.so ../pango/.libs/libpangocairo-1.0.so -L/usr/X11R6/lib /home/ryansturmer/src/pango-1.10.3/pango/.libs/libpangoft2-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so /home/ryansturmer/src/pango-1.10.3/pango/.libs/libpango-1.0.so /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so /usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so /usr/local/lib/libcairo.so -lXrender -lXext -lpng12 /usr/X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.so /usr/lib/libfreetype.so /usr/lib/libexpat.so /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so -lz -lm -lX11
/usr/local/lib/libcairo.so: undefined reference to `FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [pango-cairoview] Error 1
** [pango-cairoview] Error 1


After some reading, I've found that this may be due to a too-old version of freetype. I downloaded the latest and installed, but I still get this error! Any thoughts?

-R

As you see there are 2 different directories whith the libfreetype library that the compiler uses. I suggest you to move the old freetype libraries (from /usr/lib to another dir), run "ldconfig" and re-run the ./configure script for pango.

Regards

The short:
I would advise using `./configure --prefix=/usr && make && checkinstall` when doing these things.

The long:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=417069

You'll find someone else had a similar problem, hopefully this will help =) I can dig out more links if it doesn't!

- Piete.

Why don't use Slackware's packages ?? It has been upgraded in -current:

<COPY>
Well now after two days of trying to fullfil Basic depenedances it succeeded with

and went further finally stoping at:

Isn`t Pango basic dependence? I guess it was found installed before so what`s the problem?
I tried to reinstall Pango over and over with no result... Any suggestions? need help...

You have to use a SlackBuild. I also compiled all of these from source, but using the Slackware SlackBuilds. No problems so far.

You can also check the FreeRock SlackBuilds, but I think they do pretty much the same.

Ehh but I`m a Mandriva user... I know this is the wrong section but I think there is some universal and shure way... (wander if U can help) and I don`t think there are any proper SlackBuilds 4 my distro;p

Hey Guys...
I got the same error... You were right. Its the FreeType library conflicting issue. I removed all the /usr/lib/libfreetype* from the directory (since there were IDENTICAL files in the /usr/local/lib/).
Once I did the ./configure , make for pango, I got a missing file error (which I rectified by creating a symbolic link for that file - from /usr/lib/libfrexxxx to /usr/local/lib/libfreexxxxx)

It compiled at the end. without the Slackwhere!

Cheers!

thanks shawnbrito i needed this advice just today, looks like we have to clean out our old libs manually?

...or, you guys could actually just ask some people familiar with compiling these things.

pkg-config having a search path or not, there's a great number of things that misbehave if you have different prefixes for them. If everything it wanted were in /usr or if everything it wanted were in /usr/local, you'd have been fine. I've seen this enough from people on IRC reporting problems compiling things to not find it surprising.

I'm not saying I'm 100% sure this was what the issue was, but generally when you've got something you know was installed correctly, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH includes it, and it still fails, check that you don't have duplicate and differing versions of a lib installed (I've actually discussed this potential desynch between the path set in PKG_CONFIG_PATH and the search order the linker is likely to use with Pat before, so it's a "known" way to fail) and if you don't, be prepared to rebuild whichever packages are in the oddball prefix to use the same prefix as everything else.