Re: RC2 on Suse 9.3

[Jacques Le B. <Jac...@ob...>]

> On Monday 27 November 2006 01:16 pm, Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
>> Jacques Le Bourlot a =E9crit :
>> * libgd:
>>    I had to manually create a link from libgd.so.2 to libgd.so in
>> /usr/lib. It was not found by configure. Also gd was installed, but
>> not gd-devel so that "make" crashed when looking for gd.h
>
> This is telling you that you should have installed gd-devel.
> Forcing the build process to continue when a required package is
> missing is not a good idea.
>
That's what I did immediattely! I did not "force" the build process any
further.

>> > * Pango:
>> >    SuSE comes with pango 1.10.2 and I could not find newer
>> > packages. I compiled 1.10.4 and had no further problems at
>> > configuration/compilation time. But...
>> >
>> > * Wxt:
>> >    The terminal works (i.e. I get all the nice plots in the
>> > window). However all texts are ridiculously small (size 1 point?)
>> > and useless. I could not figure out why.
>>
>> It is precisely the problem I was trying to address when I added the
>> restriction on pango not being 1.10.2.
>> Here is the corresponding thread:
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.gnuplot.devel/5319
>
> The wxt terminal works just fine with libpango 1.10.0
>
> I think the symptom of invisibly small font sizes comes from not
> having properly initialized fontconfig.  I originally suffered from
> the same problem, but installing and initializing fontconfig fixed it.
>
I will try that. However, It'll have to wait for a few days (I'm an
astrophysicist and teacher at the University: I have very few time to
spare).

>
>> > * UTF8:
>> >   Results of "utf8.dem" are unreliable. May come from my fonts
>> > installation (which I never really understood). More specifically,
>> > I can not set encoding to "utf8"
>
I'll explore also the font issue. I usually use X11 as a term, then turn
to postscript at the very end.

Thank you for the advices.

Jacques Le Bourlot