build configure script error

Rajinder Yadav devguy-DaQTI0RpDDMAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Jun 24 18:53:48 UTC 2009


Len,

I didn't know there was a config.log, will check to see if it will shed some light.

I am wondering if pkg-config might be confused, will need to read up on this to figure out how it works.

Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav


--- On Wed, 6/24/09, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbvhPd27EkBTGA at public.gmane.orgerloo.ca>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: build configure script error
> To: tlug at ss.org
> Received: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 10:58 AM
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:26:14PM
> -0700, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> > I am trying to build cairo from tarbar source but when
> I run the configure script I keep getting the following
> error:
> > 
> > configure: error: Cairo requires at least one native
> font backend.  Please install FreeType and fontconfig
> and try again.
> > 
> > I have both the font backend installed. I even went
> and rebuilt them (again) from source and was able to build
> each successfully. Yet! cairo config script keeps barfing
> out, still.
> > 
> > Anyone here know what I might have to do?
> 
> Are the header files for those libs installed in the
> standard locations?
> 
> Did you check the config.log to see tha actual error? 
> Configure scripts
> can be totally stupid sometimes by failing one test due to
> assuming
> something else they didn't test.
> 
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