Michael Natterer 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. > > 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. Thanks! Got fontconfig now. The reason I was trying pango HEAD was that pango-1-0 does not compile for me. However, the same problem (below) occurs for me on HEAD too. D'oh. gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -DPANGO_ENABLE_ENGINE -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\ " -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../.. -g -O2 -Wa ll -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -Wp,-MD,.deps/pango-ot-info.pp -c pa ngo-ot-info.c -fPIC -DPIC -o pango-ot-info.o In file included from /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gboxed.h:26, from /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h:25, from pango-ot-private.h:27, from pango-ot-info.c:22: /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gtype.h:92: syntax error before `typedef' @@gtype.h:91:#if GLIB_SIZEOF_LONG == GLIB_SIZEOF_SIZE_T @@gtype.h:92:typedef gulong GType; /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gtype.h:167: syntax error before `gchar' @@gtype.h:167:G_CONST_RETURN gchar* g_type_name (GType type); /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gtype.h:335: syntax error before `gchar' /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gtype.h:336: syntax error before `gchar' In file included from /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h:25, from pango-ot-private.h:27, from pango-ot-info.c:22: /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gboxed.h:28: parse error before `G_BEGIN_DECLS' /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gboxed.h:36: syntax error before `typedef' In file included from /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h:26, from pango-ot-private.h:27, from pango-ot-info.c:22: /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/gobject/genums.h:28: parse error before `G_BEGIN_DECLS' /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/gobject/genums.h:46: syntax error before `typedef' In file included from /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gobject.h:27, from /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h:27, from pango-ot-private.h:27, [cut -- lots more like this]