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Subject:    [Fonts]Query about Xft2 and Pango, GDK dependency.
From:       Zenith Lau <zenithlau () sniic ! com>
Date:       2002-07-27 5:05:43
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Hi all !!

	I have download the fcpackage (02-07-17) tarball and I have just upgrade the \
freetype libs to 2.1.2. I am going to install the fcpackage libs and also gdk, pango \
stuffs. But I'd like to ask about the dependency problem first.

	I've read some previous post regarding 'fontconfig, xft2, .... play together', but I \
think there is no ans for me, So I post a new one for this!!

	At this point, I know that, Xft2 is derived from xft1 which font config management  \
function is split into fontconfig libs. and Xft2 doesn't requires xrender; pango and \
gdk do require Xft1, originally, but should be work fine with Xft2 and friends. OK, \
do I have some wrong interpretation?? If there is, pls correct me : ).

	When configuring and compiling fontconfig, I find that, I can't control the \
configure script to install the pkgconfig file (.pc) to /usr/lib/pkgconfig, while \
install others under /usr/X11R6 .. and finally I just manually put the fontconfig.pc \
into where I want. It is a fact or a convention that, we should install the .pc file \
with same libprefix as other so files within the same package ? Or, I can config it \
via some means, or anything else ??

	While, I'm going to compile the libs, I started from fontconfig, then, Xft (should \
be v2), yet, I find that, the make install overwrite the original includes dir of \
Xft1. Is it neccessary to install Xft2 and Xft1 parallelly? Or just override the Xft1 \
with Xft2 ??

	Before I compile and install the Xft2, I've tried to compile the Xft1, but, I don't \
know how to configure the process, as I can't find the configure script ... what \
should I do?? It's also the same situation for Xrender libs.

	Afterall, does all these four libs is necessary? To compile and install it ?? What's \
the dependency of these libs ? And what's the config file for this ?? \
/etc/fonts/fonts.config or /etc/X11/XftConfig?? While studying the configure files, \
and likes inside, it seems that, Xft1 will use fontconfig if there exist. For Xft2, \
it still require Xrender and also fontconfig.

	When I run configure in pango, it haven't detect anything about fontconfig. It also \
doesn't detect the freetype, and Xft header correctly. I am totally stalled on it... \
any idea to solve it??

	checking for freetype-config... /usr/bin/freetype-config
	checking for FT_New_Face in -lfreetype... yes
	checking For sufficiently new FreeType (at least 2.0.1)... yes
	checking freetype/internal/tterrors.h usability... no
	checking freetype/internal/tterrors.h presence... no
	checking for freetype/internal/tterrors.h... no
	checking for FT_Get_First_Char... yes
	checking for XRenderFindFormat in -lXrender... yes
	checking for XftFontOpen in -lXft... yes
	checking X11/Xft/XftFreetype.h usability... no
	checking X11/Xft/XftFreetype.h presence... no
	checking for X11/Xft/XftFreetype.h... no

	Sorry for my long post, filled with Questions !!

Zenith Lau
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