When building fontconfig on my system like this:
./configure \
--prefix=/opt/sw \
--with-confdir=/opt/sw/etc/fonts \
--x-libraries=/opt/xfree86/current/lib \
--x-includes=/opt/xfree86/current/include \
--with-expat-includes=/opt/sw/include \
--with-expat-lib=/opt/sw/lib \
--with-freetype-includes=/opt/xfree86/current/include/freetype2 \
--with-freetype-lib=/opt/xfree86/current/lib \
--cache-file=/dev/null
the main stuff in src compiles ok but then fc-cache and fc-list both fail to
compile saying that they can't find the libraries for expat and freetype -
looks as if the library locations I specify in configure are not getting passed
into the make process for those subdirs. Just thought you should know.
