I have installed xft, but it is not recognized by gtk+ # emerge search xft * x11-libs/xft [ Masked ] Latest version available: 2.0.1 Latest version installed: 2.0-r1 Size of downloaded files: 531 kB Homepage: http://fontconfig.org/ Description: X FreeType library, also known as Xft2.0 # emerge -u gtk+ Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) x11-libs/gtk+-2.0.9 to / >>> md5 ;-) gtk+-2.0.9.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking gtk+-2.0.9.tar.bz2 >>> Source unpacked. * Working directory: /var/tmp/portage/gtk+-2.0.9/work/gtk+-2.0.9... * Applying libtool-portage.patch... jpeg tiff configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. 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please go into /var/tmp/portage/gtk+-2.0.9/work/gtk+-2.0.9 and find the 'config.log' file ... post it as an attachment
have you fiddled around with xft-2.0 ? Then this is correct output and you should use the gnome ~ profile : gnome-2.0.3-r1
Created attachment 6448 [details] config.log /var/tmp/portage/gtk+-2.0.9/work/gtk+-2.0.9/config.log
I didn't fiddle around and i have no working gnome installed as gtk+ and xft were merged as dependencies from other ebuilds.
I used newest masked pango and gtk+ and everything went fine. Bug can be closed.
