[Slackbuilds-users] Package Build Issues -- Update

[Scott Harmon]

On Feb 1, 2009, at 7:48 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>>  When I grep for gtk in /var/log/packages these are returned:
>>
>> gtk+2-2.12.12-i486-1
>
>  I found one problem. When building tinyerp-client the configure phase
> fails for the same reason: cannot find gtk+2. So, I tried importing  
> the
> module in interactive python (according to find it resides in
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk), but apparently it  
> didn't make
> it correctly:
>
> [rshepard at salmo ~]$ python
> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Sep 11 2008, 13:43:31) [GCC 4.2.4] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import gtk
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",  
> line 48,
> in <module>
>    from gtk import _gtk
> ImportError: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol:  
> FT_Select_Size
>>>>
>
>  Reinstalling the gtk+2 package didn't help. Wonder what's going on  
> here
> ... it could well be my syntax.
>

Did you restore /usr/local/{lib,bin}... ?

>  fontconfig-2.6.0-i486-2 is installed, and that's where  
> libfontconfig.so.1
> is found.
>
>  If there is a more appropriate mail list to help me learn how to  
> identify
> what broke and how to fix it, please point me there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
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Scott J. Harmon
PhD Candidate
Kansas State University

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