Bug 236614 – x11-libs/cairo-1.6.4 expects newer fontconfig (2.2.5 doesn't work)

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jean-Luc Manigat 2008-09-03 20:59:15 UTC]

cairo 1.6.4 won't compile with fontconfig 2.2.5 but compiles fine with 2.4.2. DEPEND is simply fontconfig, should be changed to >=fontconfig-2.4.2 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge cairo
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Error.

Expected Results:  
cairo should be emerged.

Error message:

checking whether cairo's PNG backend could be enabled... yes
configure: creating src/cairo-png.pc
checking for cairo's FreeType font backend... 
checking for FONTCONFIG... yes
checking for FcFini... no
no
checking whether cairo's FreeType font backend could be enabled... no (requires fontconfig)
configure: error: requested FreeType font backend could not be enabled

[Comment 1 Jean-Luc Manigat 2008-09-03 21:07:39 UTC]

Created attachment 164509 [details, diff]
Patch to ebuild to expect fontconfig > 2.4.2

[Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2008-09-10 13:37:19 UTC]

Actually this is incorrect. The fontconfig requirement is still 2.2.5. It's probably a problem with your freetype or pkg-config paths. If you do a little googling you'll see it's a pretty common error for people to get but the actual problem is something else on their system.

Please attach the configure log