librsvg failing on freetype2 version [SOLVED]

dunkirk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 88

I was having two issues with Gnome. 1) I can't get rid of the mail-notification program, no matter how hard I try. It always launches when I log in. 2) Nautilus was resetting itself when I tried to use it to look at NFS-mounted drives. It would suddenly shift back to my home directory, seemingly randomly, after a few seconds. So I decided to upgrade to Gnome 2.16. Why, oh why, do I do such things?

I upgraded with `ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" emerge gnome'. My Treo synchronization -- which I have struggled for years to get right with Evolution -- bit the dust. I lost about an hour this morning screwing with it as various "components" of Evolution kept crashing. Great. I'm convinced that none of the Gnome team has a Palm Pilot, but that's neither here nor there. (And, frankly, with Novell's sell-out to Microsoft, I'm considering a move to KDE just on the principle of the thing.)

ANYWAY, I'm trying to go back (with `emerge -uDN world'), and I'm reaching the point where I need to install librsvg. On its configuration, it's testing for freetype. It's not making that call correctly. I have 2.10 installed. I re-installed it just to make sure, but the test is still failing. There seems to be a difference in `/usr/bin/freetype-config --version' and `/usr/bin/freetype-config --ftversion', and I'm not sure the configure script is handling this correctly. So I edited the freetype-config script to reverse the meaning, but it still fails.

I'm stuck re-emerging Gnome till this is cleared, and, for the first time in running Gentoo in about 3 years, I haven't been able to find the solution (to an emerge problem) on the forums.

enterprise ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8dk i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8dk i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:00:02 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache: [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache: [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/david/Work/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac alsa arts beagle berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts cdda cdio cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx4linux dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc esd evo evolution fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran freetype gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gmail gnome gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 hal httpd iconv imap input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog joystick jpeg kde kdefinal kernel_linux libg++ live mad matroska mmx mmxext mono mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pda pdf perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session sox spell spl sse sse2 ssl stream tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l v4l2 vcd video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia vlm vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xml xorg xv xvid zlib"
Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

enterprise ~ # emerge -uDN world
Calculating world dependencies... done!

>>> Emerging (1 of 64) gnome-base/librsvg-1.0.3 to /

<SNIP>

checking for FREETYPE2 - version >= 6.1.0... no
*** Could not run FREETYPE2 test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means FREETYPE2 was incorrectly installed
*** or that you have moved FREETYPE2 since it was installed. In the latter case, you
*** may want to edit the freetype-config script: /usr/bin/freetype-config
configure: error:
*** FreeType2 2.0.1 or better is required. You can obtain a
*** packaged version of FreeType2 over here:
*** http://developer.eazel.com/eazel-hacking/updates/freetype2
*** source versions are available from ftp://ftp.freetype.org

!!! ERROR: gnome-base/librsvg-1.0.3 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile
librsvg-1.0.3.ebuild, line 26: Called die

!!! (no error message)
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
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nixnut · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject:

hobbes27 · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject:

dunkirk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 88

enterprise librsvg-1.0.3 # eix freetype

* media-libs/freetype
Available versions: 1.3.1-r4:1 ~1.3.1-r5:1 2.1.9-r1:2 ~2.1.10:2 ~2.1.10-r1:2 2.1.10-r2:2 [M]2.2.1:2
Installed: 2.1.10-r2
Homepage: http://www.freetype.org/
Description: A high-quality and portable font engine
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dunkirk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 88

I just tried upgrading to freetype 2.2.x, and that didn't fix it either.

Now I notice that I can't run KDE either. It's not finding `kdestartupconfig', even though it's definitely present and accounted for.

So now I can't run Gnome OR KDE. I've never seen my system so broken before. This is... disheartening.
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AlefBet · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:40 pm Post subject:

I don't know if this helps, but I had the same symptom and it appeared to stem from portage wanting to merge a slotted v1.x of librsvg. This appeared to be because portage wanted to downgrade nautilus to v1.x from 2.14. I sidestepped the issue by unmerging nautilus-themes, which appeared to want the older nautilus.
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dunkirk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 88

Huzzah! That fixed it! Thanks for your help!

For those playing along at home, KDE is working again. It might have been a restart of xdm that got it going. At least I have a GUI while I get Gnome back into shape. Here's to it coming back in with the problems fixed that drove me to upgrading...
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hobbes27 · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject:

zajelo3 · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 60

Same problem and the solution worked for me also. How do you find out whats causing a problem like this?

dunkirk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 88

I'm guessing that an `emerge --tree' will help you see what's depending on what. I missed that trick this time.
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