Bug 20189 – x11-libs/vte-0.10.27 won't compile

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Miguel Revilla Rodríguez 2003-04-29 17:54:42 UTC]

vte-0.10.27 won't compile because of missing xft, but xft is actually present through 
xfree 
 
LOG: 
emerge vte 
... 
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config 
checking for glib-2.0 gobject-2.0... yes 
checking GOBJECT_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include 
checking GOBJECT_LIBS... -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 
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-0.10.27 failed. 
!!! Function econf, Line 273, Exitcode 1 
!!! econf failed

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2003-04-30 19:20:07 UTC]

what is the output of  'qpkg -l xfree | grep xft.pc' ?

[Comment 2 Miguel Revilla Rodríguez 2003-04-30 19:37:00 UTC]

Just this line: 
 
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xft.pc 

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2003-04-30 19:39:47 UTC]

make sure it is really there .

[Comment 4 Miguel Revilla Rodríguez 2003-04-30 19:42:51 UTC]

It is NOT there :((( 
Why? 

[Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) 2003-04-30 21:22:57 UTC]

you used an early (masked) xfree-4.3 which didnt block xft correctly. So it installed over xft and later on the xft ebuild got removed taking the common parts with it. You can probably get a correct xft.pc from the old fontconfig/xft source or just recompile xfree.