Bug 82225 – openbox-3.2-r2 fails with xft error

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) 2005-02-16 02:16:10 UTC]

I have a fresh amd64 installation of gentoo.
I have installede xorg-x11 and i'm now trying to install openbox, but it fails with the following message during configure:

checking for 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 (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.

Unpacking and doing a export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib64/pkgconfig and then configure works. So I think this has something to do with your xorg-x11 team moving those x lib's around recently.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:





Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3-20050110,
glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r0, 2.6.10 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 15 2005, 11:36:40)]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS=""
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X Xaw3d acpi aim alsa auctex audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts
cdparanoia crypt divx4linux doc emacs emacs-w3 f77 font-server fortran freetype
gd gif gimpprint glade gtk2 imap imlib2 ipv6 jabber jp2 jpeg lzw lzw-tiff
maildir mailwrapper md5sum mpeg mpeg4 multilib ncurses network nls nntp nptl
nvidia opengl opens oss pam perl png pnp ppds python quicktime readline rtc ssl
tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb utf8 vanilla xml2 xpm
xrandr xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 05:26:00 UTC]

pango also has similar issues... which are resolved by doing the export PKG_CONFIG_PATH thing I mentioned.
Maybe someone should CC or assign this bug to someone other than Commonbox Team, since its not only a openbox issue. The issue is probably in the amd64 port.

[Comment 2 Tom Martin (RETIRED) 2005-02-27 02:19:39 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82394 ***