Bugzilla – Bug 105764
gtk2 pkgconfig doesn't provide pangoxft anymore
Last modified: 2006-02-08 07:07:01 UTC
gtk2 pkgconfig doesn't provide pangoxft anymore. This breaks all mozilla based packages at the moment and some others because the XFT functions are not linked in. I think this is partly a bug in those packages and not GTK but want to have some background on this change and recommendations how this can be handled. gdk-x11 required pangoxft up to beta2 but now it doesn't anymore. That breaks packages which rely on the output of pkg-config --libs gtk2.
cc aj
does anyone know if I can replace the pangoxft link with one to xft directly: -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXft -lX11 -lfreetype -lXrender -lfontconfig ?
Or maybe pkg-config --libs pangoxft and pkg-config --cflags pangoxft.
but this would need to rewrite the configure script (which is not possible easily as it is incompatible with our autoconf version). Why it isn't there anymore? So GTK2 doesn't use it internally anymore? (because it switched to cairo for font rendering?)
Then create modified .pc file, install it somewhere and prepend it to PKG_CONFIG_PATH. 2005-08-09 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> * configure.in: Strip out all Xft, FreeType, and pangoxft checking. Rewrite X checks to use pkg-config as much as possible.
I am now fixing the same problem in wxGTK. It seems that functions from xft backend were unused for some time and now they are removed and it's good to remove them from the code. They probably manipulate with unused structures.
Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird have been fixed. So if noone else need this bugreport anymore it can be closed from my side.
seems that sffview build now with the new wxGTK. So we can close it also from my side. Note: I can't test the new package before BETA3, so I do not know if it still works with the new libs.
Roc, are you able to backport any fixes from firefox 1.1 for building or should we just leave it hardcoded?
I think it's not worth the effort. Even firefox trunk doesn't have a fix for this after having a short look at it. For Firefox 1.5 we will switch to pango font rendering and there are other issues to solve which I'm going to do now.
Sounds good.
Whats about the old distributions, where this stuff was checked in (9.1-9.3 PLUS). It should also be fixed there or roll back the old version. Why was this stuff checked in into the old distributions ?
All of GNOME is checked into plus as a matter of policy. For firefox, Wolfgang are you pushing firefox to plus?
Firefox is not in PLUS yet. Only mozilla is there.
Thank to Michal Cihar ssfview is working again in the PLUS versions.
Reducing priority, its all fine for 10.0
I'm going to close this, all affected apps work, and PLUS is only an issue if you want to build something like mozilla yourself.