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Problem configuring tk8.5b3 with xft

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seetho

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Dec 5, 2007, 3:19:55 PM12/5/07
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I tried configuring the Tk sources for use on my Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy)
installation, but I am unable to turn on the --enable-xft option.

checking whether to use xft... no
configure: WARNING: Can't find xft configuration, or xft is unusable

I'd like to be able to use antialiased fonts with Tk. Can anyone here
offer some hints on how to get xft working on Ubuntu? Searching the
forums and google did not produce much info on X - most people are more
interested in KDE or Gnome.

Thanks
st

Andrés García

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Dec 5, 2007, 6:16:17 PM12/5/07
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Hi,


> checking whether to use xft... no
> configure: WARNING: Can't find xft configuration, or xft is unusable

You probably need to install libxft-devel

Andres

seetho

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Dec 5, 2007, 9:48:52 PM12/5/07
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Yes! It works now. It would seem that Xft was there all the time.
It's just missing the C header files.

checking whether to use xft... yes
checking for X11/Xft/Xft.h... yes
checking for FT_New_Face in -lXft... yes

Thank you very much.
st

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