"Adam D. Moss" <adam@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Philip Brown wrote: > > > BTW, would you try gimp 1.3.7 (or CVS) and try if the problem still > > > persists there? If they behave different we'd have a hint how to > > > fix 1.2. If 1.3.7 has the effect too, we have a bug on both branches :( > > > > I already tried. I was very disappointed to see that you guys seem to be > > following in GNOME's footsteps, and suddenly requiring 3 times the amount of > > library dependancies. > > I feel your pain. > > 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. Hi Adam, It's just the HEAD version of pango which requires fontconfig, you probably wanted to checkout the "pango-1-0" branch. The branches are glib-2-0, pango-1-0, atk HEAD, gtk-2-0. ciao, --mitch
