Pango update fails - *** Must have at least one backend to build Pango.

[AN]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>> checking which cairo font backends could be used... none
>> configure: Disabling cairo support
>> configure: error: *** Could not enable any backends.
>
> This is telling you that the cairo port, when you built it, did not
> include any "font backends" (other ports for it to use in providing
> fonts). You need to rebuild cairo first, making sure that you do a "make
> config" on it to select a backend.
>

After further investigation it seems that x11-fonts/fontconfig needs to be 
updated first.

--->  Upgrade of x11-fonts/fontconfig ended at: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 10:55:37 
-0500 (consumed 00:00:41)
--->  ** Upgrade tasks 1: 1 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 0 failed
--->  Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
         + x11-fonts/fontconfig (fontconfig-2.9.0,1 -> 
fontconfig-2.10.93,1)
--->  Packages processed: 1 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 0 failed

Then x11-toolkits/pango will update successfully.

--->  Upgrade of x11-toolkits/pango ended at: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 10:56:31 
-0500 (consumed 00:00:37)
--->  ** Upgrade tasks 1: 1 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 0 failed
--->  Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
         + x11-toolkits/pango (pango-1.30.1 -> pango-1.34.1)
--->  Packages processed: 1 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 0 failed

Sorry for the noise.

Thank you,

Andy