Re: gtk+-2.2.4 make fails

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

calix ar com au wrote:
> > Is freetype.h on the system and in the search path? The other errors are
> > probably caused by the following implicit declarations.
>
> I _knew_ I was asking for a smack in the chops with the bleeding
> obvious. Thanks for wielding the cluebat :)
>
> The final solution was to copy the whole of freetype2's include/freetype
> into X11R6's include directory. Apparently linking it into
> /usr/local/include just isn't good enough.
>
> It's now complaining about conflicts between 2 versions of libexpat (it
> wants libexpat.so.0, while Xft used .so.1), but I should have that fixed
> with a little time and some judicious recompiling...

When you have libs already on your system and you compile a new
setup that has other versions of the same libraries, libtool can
get confused. Beware.