Running the development version.

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 05:06:38PM -0800, Joel Biddier wrote:

> (*) And yes, I finally got the development version working ;-). It took 
> me three nights, but I got it. 

Great!

> My problem centered around the fact that 
> GTK 2.4 wants pango to be compiled with the ?--with-x? option ? use the 
> Xft backend (which creates pkgconfig file: pangoxft.pc) and not the 
> FreeType2 backend (pkgconfig file: pangoft.pc). This is OK for systems 
> that use XFree86, which have Xft and dependent libs (render, 
> xrender...). But for non-XFree86 X systems this can be a problem. 
> For there is no Xft and it's dependent libs on these systems. 

Arg. :/
I hope you have filed the corresponding bug reports.

> Also in my three day drama, was that I compiled Python 2.2, 
> but PyGTK 2.4.1 wanted Python 2.3+. 
> This was just on my laptop ? so no harm done. So if you 
> wondered why I was desperate for an easy out... ;-). As long as I 
> got.... it's all good.

Fine, and this is getting you more self-confidence.
I had similiar encounters and after doing this for a couple of
packages I got practice in solving this kind of problems relatively fast.

        Bernhard R.

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