Building gtk+ 2.10.0 fails at libpango

I'm trying to build GTK+ 2.10.0 and the ./configure is failing at detecting pango. I have installed cairo before pango, so pango should be detecting cairo (and seems to be except for some XRender errors in the config.log of pango).

When I install an older version of pango than GTK+ wants, it complains that a newer version is needed. So I install a newer version, and it complains that pango isn't installed.

Here's the message that ./configure dies with:

checking for X11/extensions/Xrandr.h... yes
checking Pango flags... configure: error:
*** Pango not found. Pango built with Cairo support is required
*** to build GTK+. See http://www.pango.org for Pango information.


Any tips/tricks before I go to the GTK+ mailing list?

Check that there's an appropriate pango.pc in /usr/[local/]lib/pkgconfig

I have a pango.pc, but I don't have pangocairo.pc. Would this matter?

I tried copying pangocairo.pc from my pango-1.13.3 source directory, but then GTK+ says it can't link to Pango, so I'm thinking other files besides just pangocairo.pc are needed.

pkg_add -r pango

Turns out cairo needed Xrender, pango needed cairo, and gtk+ needed pango.

:-/ dependancies

>>5
Are you doing this manually? You know, package managers actually do dependency checking now. If you want a from-scratch system with much less hassle, try Gentoo.