Re: configure problem due to libpng dependency on zlib

[Andrew Marlow <apm35 student open ac uk>]

dia-list gnome org writes:
> On 22 Jul 2003, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> > Le Tue, Jul 22, 2003, à 02:30:28PM +0100, Andrew Marlow a écrit:
> > > I should also mention that I got a fatal link error
> > > saaying that it could find the symbol
> > > FT_Get_BDF_Property. Any ideas? Shouldn't configure
> > > check for this as well?
> >
> > I guess it should (Lars?). Maybe you have a slightly too old freetype? 
>
> Is this perhaps the lack of recursive linking again?  What's the command
> when it tries to link?

No, that's not the problem. The problem is that configure
doesn't check that freetype2 is present. I didn't have
freetype2 at all. Once I got it built and installed,
dia built fine. Doesn't this mean that configure.in needs
to be fixed?

Regards,

Andrew Marlow
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