hello,
I have spent about 4 days searching archives for the answer to waht I
suspect is a silly question.
In short, I couldn't use gimp to print (reasonably) to my Photosmart
7150, and gimp wasn't being nice (like wasn't saving my printer setups
for me, so if I spent an hour setting the gamma, it was all gone the
next page I wanted to print), so i figured, well, first step is get the
most up-to-date version of anything... so I downloaded the 1.3.11
source, and started the ./configure dance. Didn't get far...
1. it seems that gimp and gimp-print each want each other to exist
first-- this seems like a "race condition". Do I reaaly have to compile
gimp without printing, compile gimp-print,a nd then recompilee gimp?
2. GIMP wants pango with freetype 2.
I have rpmed in freetype2
[root@pasteur pango-1.2.1]# rpm -qa | grep freetype
freetype-devel-2.1.2-7
freetype-2.1.2-7
freetype-utils-2.1.2-7
but when I compile pango, pangoft2.* doesn't happen. what am I missing?
all I did was the ./configure make make install dance with pango, and I
couldn't find anything in the doc to tell me how to tell it about
freetype2. It does identify a freetype >=2.0 in the config. I tried
./configure --with-freetype2 but that didn't help.
3. everything complains about xft and fontconfig being missing. tried
rpming those in and Xft went fine but fontconfig barfed wanting a newer
glibc than I had. Are these necessary?
I have RH 7.X, and XFree86 4.2.0
recompiled and installed GTK2.2.1, and all of the "upstream stuff" for
that wihtout any explosions.
thanks for any help about what I am missing.
Bill
