Install problem on 2.4.0 - missing fontconfig

[Dave Smith <davecindysmith comcast net>]

Hi,

I had gtk+-2.2.4 installed and working on SuSE 8.1.  When upgrading to 
gtk+-2.4.0, glib, pango, and atk all installed OK, but the configure failed 
on gtk because the "pangoxft" package was not found.  The pango configure 
complained that "fontconfig" was not found, but this same message also 
appeared when building 2.2.4 (which built and ran OK).  I assume that the 
changes in the gtk configure script were necessary to support new features.

I tried to install "fontconfig", but I get a compilation error that:
`PS_FontInfoRec' is undeclared.  I found some communications in the fontconfig 
archives stating that there may be a conflict with the version of FreeType, 
but there was nothing that really gave a solution.

Has anyone else had this problem?  If so, what was your solution?

Thanks in advance,

Dave Smith