Re: [gnome-core] Failed: phase compiling: gtk+2-2.6.10-1003 failed

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

On 3/9/07, Peter Dyballa <Pet...@fr...> wrote:
>
> Am 07.03.2007 um 19:14 schrieb Alexander Hansen:
>
> >>         checking for freetype-config... /usr/X11R6/bin/freetype-
> >> config
> >>         checking For sufficiently new FreeType (at least 2.0.1)...
> >> yes
> >>         configure: error: Xft Pango backend is required for x11
> >> target
> >>         ### execution of ./configure failed, exit code 1
> >>
> >> The right script is /sw/lib/freetype219/bin/freetype-config ... to
> >> which the sym-link /usr/X11R6/bin/freetype-config points!
> >
> > On a a system where the user hasn't modified anything,
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/freetype-config is provided by whatever X11 package
> > you've installed, and is not a symlink to anything.  Did you modify
> > yours?
>
> I did so, to make a lot of applications use Fink's Freetype. Undoing
> my change, configure still fails:
>
>         checking for x86 platform... no
>         checking for freetype-config... /usr/X11R6/bin/freetype-config
>         checking For sufficiently new FreeType (at least 2.0.1)... yes
>         configure: error: Xft Pango backend is required for x11 target
>         ### execution of ./configure failed, exit code 1
>
> >
> > Do you have pango1-xft219-dev installed?
>
> Not exactly this package, which does not seem to exist for PowerPC, but:
>
> fink list -i | grep pango
> i      pango1-xft2              1.10.1-1003    GTK+ - i18n libs (for
> XFree86 >= 4.3)
> i      pango1-xft2-dev          1.10.1-1003    GTK+ - i18n text
> development headers and libraries (for XFree86 >= 4.3)
> i      pango1-xft2-shlibs       1.10.1-1003    GTK+ - i18n text
> shared libraries (for XFree86 >= 4.3)
> i      pango1-xft2-ft219        1.10.1-1102    GTK+ - i18n libs (for
> freetype >= 2.1.9)
> i      pango1-xft2-ft219-dev    1.10.1-1102    GTK+ - i18n text
> development headers and libraries (for freetype >= 2.1.9)
> i      pango1-xft2-ft219-shlibs 1.10.1-1102    GTK+ - i18n text
> shared libraries (for freetype >= 2.1.9)
>

Yeah, I don't have my mac right now, and I didn't look up the correct
package name.

> The other pango related packages I can list are:
>
>         pango1          1.2.1-25        I18N text handling system convinience package
>         pango1-dev      1.2.1-25        I18N text handling system convinience package
>         pango1-shlibs   1.10.0-3        Deprecated convenience package (use
> pango1-xft2* instead)
>         pangoxsl        1.6.0.2-1002    Xsl extension libs for pango
>         pangoxsl-shlibs 1.6.0.2-1002    Shared libs for pangoxsl
>
> Trying to remove the "general" pango1-xft2 packages Fink tries to re-
> install them:
>
>         The package 'pango1-xft2' will be installed.
>         Reading dependency for pango1-xft2-1.10.1-1003...
>         The package 'pango1-xft2-dev' will be installed.
>         Reading dependency for pango1-xft2-dev-1.10.1-1003...
>         The package 'pango1-xft2-shlibs' will be installed.
>         Reading dependency for pango1-xft2-shlibs-1.10.1-1003...
>         The following 3 packages will be rebuilt:
>         gtk+2 gtk+2-dev gtk+2-shlibs
>         The following 3 additional packages will be installed:
>         pango1-xft2 pango1-xft2-dev pango1-xft2-shlibs
>
> The specific pango1-xft2-ft219 packages were installed today as a try
> to enable installation of GTK+2.
>
> >
> > Fink's gtk+2 is explicitly _not_ configured to use freetype219 because
> > of cascading dependency issues for packages that use it.
>
> Are these problems listed and/or described somewhere?
>

I don't know if they're tabulated.  In any case the severity of the
issue has prompted the development team to use a very cautious upgrade
strategy.  However, this will bring in freetype219 as well as upgrade
gtk+2 to 2.10.9 (as of right now).

> >
> > Based on the information you've given, I can only assume that you're
> > trying to convert it over  yourself.
>
> Yes, I tried it once and built local Fink packages that way. Then GNU
> Emacs with GTK bindings and gkrellm2 did not launch ...
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>    Pete
>
> In a world without walls and fences, who needs gates and windows?
>
>
>


-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
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Fink Documenter (still)