Hi, "Henry Roeland" <henry.roeland@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm new to GIMP develop and have some (beginners?) questions about the > dependecies for the current GIMP cvs version > > GIMP did build at one time but it didn't started because it demands > the freetype2 package for the freetype plugin All you need to do is to update freetype2 then. You shouldn't have to recompile all other libraries. Sven