I got the following. Is it caused by FreeType 2.1.8 ? I noticed the following in the ChangeLog: 2004-03-04 Werner Lemberg * include/freetype/internal/ftobjs.h: s/MIN/FT_MIN/, s/MAX/FT_MAX/,s/ABS/FT_ABS/. Updated all callers. gcc -march=i686 -O2 -pipe -Wl,-s -o fc-cache fc-cache.o ../src/.libs/libfontconfig.so /usr/lib/libfreetype.so -lz /usr/lib/libexpat.so -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/fredlwm/tmp/objdir/fontconfig/src/.libs ../src/.libs/libfontconfig.so: undefined reference to `MAX' ../src/.libs/libfontconfig.so: undefined reference to `ABS' ../src/.libs/libfontconfig.so: undefined reference to `MIN' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [fc-cache] Error 1 -- http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html