Hi,

Brian Perkins writes:

I am attempting to compile gimp1.3 and during the configure stage I get the error that pangoft2.pc cannot be found. I have installed freetype and recompiled pango and also tried setting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to the directory containing pangoft2.pc. Is there something special I need to do when compiling pango to set the optional freetype support?

Pango should find freetype when you run configure. When configure finishes, it will list the backends it is going to build. But you mentioned that there is a pangoft2.pc file already. This indicates that pangoft2 was built. Please check that pangoft2 is version 1.2.0 or newer. You can use pkg-config to do that:

pkg-config --modversion pangoft2

Sven

You should edit the pango configure script and uncomment the lines related to pangoft2.pc. They´re more or less at the beginning of the file. It´s fairly easy to do that, the hard part was to figure it out (at least for me). Then run configure. As Sven said it should appear in the listing of things to build.

José Manuel García-Patos Madrid

Hi,

José Manuel García-Patos writes:

You should edit the pango configure script and uncomment the lines related to pangoft2.pc. They´re more or less at the beginning of the file. It´s fairly easy to do that, the hard part was to figure it out (at least for me).

Editing the configure script is definitely not the right way of solving such problems. Please don't suggest such stuff (even if it somehow worked for you).

Sven

On 2003-05-30 at 1808.38 +0200, Sven Neumann typed this:

Hi,

Jos? Manuel Garc?a-Patos writes:

You should edit the pango configure script and uncomment the lines related to pangoft2.pc. They?re more or less at the beginning of the file. It?s fairly easy to do that, the hard part was to figure it out (at least for me).

Editing the configure script is definitely not the right way of solving such problems. Please don't suggest such stuff (even if it somehow worked for you).

aww,

don't just say don't do that. at least say why and the better way to fix it.

carol

You should edit the pango configure script and uncomment the lines related to pangoft2.pc. They´re more or less at the beginning of the file. It´s fairly easy to do that, the hard part was to figure it out (at least for me). Then run configure. As Sven said it should appear in the listing of things to build.

Don´t take my advice if it´s something bad. But let me correct myself. I meant to say Makefile, not configure. Sorry about that. Too. One thing is giving bad advices, and another giving faulty ones. Sorry again.

José Manuel García-Patos Madrid

ps. I sent a correction earlier, but I guess it didn´t get through for some reason.

On 2003-06-01 at 1636.22 -0400, Carol Spears typed this:

On 2003-05-30 at 1808.38 +0200, Sven Neumann typed this:

Hi,

Jos? Manuel Garc?a-Patos writes:

You should edit the pango configure script and uncomment the lines related to pangoft2.pc. They?re more or less at the beginning of the file. It?s fairly easy to do that, the hard part was to figure it out (at least for me).

Editing the configure script is definitely not the right way of solving such problems. Please don't suggest such stuff (even if it somehow worked for you).

aww,

don't just say don't do that. at least say why and the better way to fix it.

because it sounds so mean.

carol

Hi,

Carol Spears writes:

On 2003-05-30 at 1808.38 +0200, Sven Neumann typed this:

Editing the configure script is definitely not the right way of solving such problems. Please don't suggest such stuff (even if it somehow worked for you).

aww,

don't just say don't do that. at least say why and the better way to fix it.

Well, I would have done that but the original message didn't give enough information to allow me to give a useful advice.

Sven

BTW: Editing the Makefile is about as wrong as editing the configure script.