Re: fontconfig error

["Bill Cunningham" <billcu1 verizon net>]

> It looks like a result of FreeType's housecleaning..  The latest
> versions of freetype removed the public install of old internal headers,
> which half the projects on the Internet (it seems) used.  They were
> never supposed to, but they did.  Result: many packages are broken.
> Installing an older freetype (2.1.x I believe) is an intermediate fix;
> otherwise, there are patches from freetype's website for some packages,
> and many packages have appropriate fixes already.
>
> It's been a while since I looked into this, so I don't remember details,
> but that should give you a starting point.
>
> - Michael
>
    I came across a package called fcpackage. This enabled me to get
fontconfig installed and cairo. Now it's Pango that's giving me the
problems.

Bill