Bug 265674 – x11-libs/pango-1.22.4 config file generation fails

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo/Alt

[Description archibald haddock 2009-04-10 17:37:23 UTC]

Emerging pango and running some app with pango (e.g. pango-view) displays squares instead of letters, throws some errors:

(pango-view:175): Pango-CRITICAL **: No modules found:
No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found.
PangoFc will not work correctly.
This probably means there was an error in the creation of:
  '/Users/jogo/Gentoo/etc/pango/pango.modules'
You should create this file by running:
  pango-querymodules > '/Users/jogo/Gentoo/etc/pango/pango.modules'

(pango-view:175): Pango-WARNING **: failed to find shape engine, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderATSUI', script='latin'

(pango-view:175): Pango-WARNING **: failed to find shape engine, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderATSUI', script='common'

Running pango-querymodules > '/Users/jogo/Gentoo/etc/pango/pango.modules' as suggested does not help, it only generates these four lines:

# Pango Modules file
# Automatically generated file, do not edit
#
# ModulesPath = /Users/jogo/Gentoo/usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules
#




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge pango
2.pango-view 


Actual Results:  
Letters are displayed as squares.

Expected Results:  
Letters are display as letters.

Instead of the command above, this command generate the file, so that pango works:
pango-querymodules /Users/jogo/Gentoo/usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/* > '/Users/jogo/Gentoo/etc/pango/pango.modules'

[Comment 1 Fabian Groffen 2009-10-03 13:24:18 UTC]

this issue seems to have been fixed in more recent versions of pango, thanks for the report + solution though!