Bug 21456 – vte-0.10.28 fails to compile with xft error

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Cletus Lichte 2003-05-22 01:40:03 UTC]

I get the following error when trying to compile vte-0.10.28:

checking for glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0 gtk+-2.0 pangox fontconfig
xft... Package xft was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xft.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xft' found

configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0
gtk+-2.0 pangox fontconfig xft) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config
can find them.

!!! ERROR: x11-libs/vte-0.10.28 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 303, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed

I'm using the new xfree that requires you to unmerge xft.

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2003-05-22 08:03:19 UTC]

did you unmerge xft before or after you emerged the new xfree ?

[Comment 2 Cletus Lichte 2003-05-22 19:19:29 UTC]

I unmerged it before emerging xfree86.

[Comment 3 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-05-25 06:04:19 UTC]

hmm .. something much of fallen over when you merged xfree-4.3.0-r2. can you find xft.pc anywhere on your system? look in /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig and see if there's anything there. if there is copy them over to /usr/lib/pkgconfig. 

[Comment 4 Cletus Lichte 2003-05-25 07:26:12 UTC]

there is no xft.pc file anywhere on my system.

[Comment 5 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-05-25 13:51:17 UTC]

there is something wrong with your xfree, you'll need to re-emerge it. the xft files seem to be missing for you.

[Comment 6 Cletus Lichte 2003-05-25 19:28:01 UTC]

That fixed it, thanks.

[Comment 7 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-05-26 05:25:05 UTC]

it might have been you merged a slightly broken xfree previously. i'm glad its fixed now. thanks for bearing with us.