Re: configure problem

"Jonathan A." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.compw.window-managers.windowmaker.user
Organization Not today, maybe tomorrow.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:34:00 -0700, Cindy Hodgins Burian
<[email protected]> appears to have said:

> checking for the Xft2 library... found
> checking whether libXft is at least version 2.1.2... no
>
> ERROR!!! libXft on this system is an old version.
>         Please consider upgrading to at least version 2.1.2.

I have the same issue here, running X.org 6.8.2. It turned out that
it wasn't really Xft that was failing, but a misconfiguration of the
freetype detection... which in turn led to the "bad Xft" error.

What worked for me was to do:

CPPFLAGS="`freetype-config --cflags`" ./configure --my-options
          
HTH,
Jonathan

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