On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:37:41PM +0100, Adam D. Moss wrote: > ... > This is as good a point to ask as any; in following the > latest incarnation of the crazy dep-chain I ran into a > dead-end finding the mysterious 'fontconfig' (fontconfig > is needed by pango is needed by gtk2 is needed by gimp). > Anyone know where I can find such a thing? I thought > that it sounded like it was probably part of pkgconfig > (pkgconfig is needed by... etc) but it doesn't seem to > be. seems that the latest version of pkgconfig is not compatible with the latest version of pango. Which is a really good reason to not do this sort of nonsense. Just use autoconfig like always, instead of this silly pkgconfig. It's too redhat, for a software tool that's supposed to be cross-UNIX compatible.
