I have had similar problem. To get through it, I think I did either commented out the lines where it checks for the version of fontconfig or I made it check for much lower version. It worked fine but many applications start complaining about Fontconfig. For example when I do "make xconfig" in the kernel source directory, I get Fontconfig warrning messages. Now, with what you, the other Dan and Bruce have posted, I will re-evaluate my action. Thanks, Ghirmay D.
--- On Thu, 7/24/08, Dan McGhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Dan McGhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: libXft-2.1.12 fails to configure To: "BLFS Support List" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 12:32 AM Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Dan McGhee wrote: > > >> I installed fontconfig 2.4.2 for this BLFS build. >> > > ... > > >> `find / -xdev -type f -name "fontconfig.pc" -print` gave nothing. >> > > Then you don't have fontconfig installed properly. It should be at > > /usr/lib/pkgconfig/fontconfig.pc > That's what I figured cuz that's where it is on my PC--building on laptop. Sooooo, I uninstalled and reinstalled fontconfig and double-checked each step along the way. Fontconfig.pc was not installed again. It got compiled--it's in the source tree--but it didn't get put where it belongs. Because I use the more_control_package_helpers management system, something like this usually ends up to be a permissions problem, but the scripting usually kicks out an error message if that's the case. In this case the permissions along the install path /usr/lib/pkgconfig are all OK. I'm sure that installing it to the directory will work, but I sure would like to know what went wrong with the fontconfig installation. I've looked at the Makefile and install-sh and don't recognize any problems. Thanks, Bruce and Dan for the help. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
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