Re: libpangoxft doesnt exist

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:11:27 +0200
urgrue <[email protected]> wrote:

> solved my gnome startup failure with a simple "emerge pango". 
> apparently that is required but not built automatically.
> but now it gnome-session complains that it cant find 
> libpangoxft-1.0.so.0
> and indeed, it doesnt exist. but i did install pango, and i have 
> libpangoft2, libpangox, but no libpangoxft.
> is there some USE variable that is not set by default, to build those 
> libraries?

Odd, because at least the following ebuilds all have dependencies on pango:

   gnome-core/gnome
   gnome-core/libgnomecanvas
   gnome-core/libgnomeprint
   gnome-core/gail
   gnome-core/libsrvg

The only USE variable employed by the pango ebuild is "doc". Can you actually check which libs, if any, you have installed:

   ls -l /usr/lib/libpangoxft*

Assuming you have pango-1.0.5 emerged then the actual lib file should be:

   libpangoxft-1.0.so.0.0.5

Hopefully, that is present, in which case perhaps you are missing the necessary symlink which could be fixed with:

   cd /usr/lib
   ln -s libpangoxft-1.0.so.0.0.5 libpango-1.0.so.0

--kerframil