Bug 29899 – Abiword wouldn't compile complaining about missing xft package

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sigurd Stordal 2003-09-29 06:41:19 UTC]

When I try to merge the abiword 2.0.0 ebuild it complains about not finding the xft package, and fail to compile.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-09-29 06:49:19 UTC]

you forgot `emerge info` and to post the actual error you saw

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2003-09-29 07:09:39 UTC]

and post the exact version of your xfree.

[Comment 3 Sigurd Stordal 2003-09-29 08:13:50 UTC]

emerge info gives this:
Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r6)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache userpriv sandbox usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/linux/Gentoo ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo
 http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/gentoo/
ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.linux.no/ ftp://gentoo.linux.no/pub/gentoo/
 http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/gentoo
"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage_local"
SYNC="rsync://localhost/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod
mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib
gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga tcltk java
guile mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis
gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla cdr scanner 3dnow clamav dvd faad flash
gb gphoto2 gps imagemagick ipv6 jack jikes joystick ladcca libgda lzo matroska
mdb mng nas nhc98 nviz odbc ofx openal perlpython ppds prelude qhull rscsi
samba slp sox tiff transcode type1 usb v4l wmf xfs xvid"

xfree version:
[ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r2

error I get:
Package gucharmap was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gucharmap.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gucharmap' found
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 (xft >= 2.0 fontconfig >= 1.0) 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: app-office/abiword-2.0.0 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 324, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2003-09-29 09:20:28 UTC]

do 'qpkg -l xfree | grep pkgconfig' , there should be output. Check that
the files in the output really do exist.

[Comment 5 Sigurd Stordal 2003-09-30 04:27:27 UTC]

Doing the qpkg -l xfree |grep pkgconfig thing, and checking if the file exists,
the file does not seem to exist. So then I'll try to re emerge xfree. hopefully
it will work then.

[Comment 6 foser (RETIRED) 2003-10-05 03:51:19 UTC]

assume that fixed it.. if not reopen