On Wednesday 08 October 2003 2:43 pm, Jeff Trefftzs wrote: > Hi, > > On Monday I downloaded the latest gimp-1.3.21, expecting to be able > to have a sparkling new version to play with by sometime that > afternoon. No such luck. I'm running into the following problem: > > checking PANGOFT2_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 > -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 > -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include > checking PANGOFT2_LIBS... -Wl,--export-dynamic -lpangoft2-1.0 > -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 > checking for fontconfig >= 2.2.0... Requested 'fontconfig >= 2.2.0' > but version > of Fontconfig is 1.0.1 > > configure: error: Library requirements (fontconfig >= 2.2.0) not > met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if > your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find > them. > > So far this loks straightforward -- I need a later version of > fontconfig, right? So I go download the > fontconfig-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm and the > fontcnfig-devel-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm from RedHat and try to upgrade. > Well, the upgrade doesn't quite work: > Mandrake 9.1 here. The update went smoothly when I set mandrake cooker as a media to URPMI. No News Good News all the way until the GIMP got running. On thing you might try is to pick up MDK rpms...or better, compile fontconfig yourself. Regards, JS -><-
