I get this error when trying to emerge gfontview-0.5.0-r6. freetype-1.3.1-r4 and -2.1.10-r2 are installed. checking for TT_Init_FreeType in -lttf... no configure: error: Cannot find TrueType library emerge --info: ortage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.18-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 15:00:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/initng /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/science" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 acpi alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode fam fame firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv imap immqt immqt-bc input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog java jpeg kde kernel_linux ldap libg++ mad maildir mikmod mmx mozcalendar mp3 mpeg musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl php png povray ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse ssl subtitles tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xprint xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 101598 [details] failed config.log
Masked for removal in 30 days. Upstream has not released a new version since 2001 and it uses gtk+-1
I have no problem (re-)installing it nor running it. The last update in Portage was c 061109. It is never a reason to remove a package that upstream hasn't upgraded it recently: maybe it needs no improvement. If you want to remove this package from the tree, please provide a better justification.
The justification is easy: - it does not compile (open bug, no one cares to fix) - upstream has not released since 2001, so likely it does not care either - the package uses the obsolete libs gtk+-1 and freetype-1 But this bug is plain invalid because it works for you and -lesd is not used in gfontview. Thanks
In your justification, points 2 & 3 are correct, but inadequate on their own; point 1 is, as you now agree, incorrect: it does compile & run here & the OP had done something wrong in his own system to cause the problem. I agree Gfontview is not the most upto-date package in the tree, but it does do its job on my machine at least. Anyway, thanks for restoring it: I could live without it, but it's useful. And as always, thanks to you & the other devs for their unpaid work. PS Dillo also relies on Gtk+-1 & Dillo is a very useful little browser, so we can't escape Gtk+-1 yet (smile).
