Around 15 o''clock on Mar 21, Christopher Curry wrote:> I''m installing the fontconfig package and configure fails, saying it > ''cannot find expat library''. Can you tell me what this means I dont > have? Thanks.It means it couldn''t find the header files and development versions of the shared library. You probably need to find the developer package for the expat library; you''ll find that in your distribution somewhere. -keith
Hi. I''m installing the fontconfig package and configure fails, saying it ''cannot find expat library''. Can you tell me what this means I dont have? Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. configure:633: checking for gcc configure:746: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works configure:762: gcc -o conftest conftest.c 1>&5 configure:788: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler configure:793: checking whether we are using GNU C configure:802: gcc -E conftest.c configure:821: checking whether gcc accepts -g configure:864: checking for a BSD compatible install configure:917: checking whether ln -s works configure:938: checking how to run the C preprocessor configure:959: gcc -E conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out configure:1022: checking for X configure:1285: checking for dirent.h that defines DIR configure:1298: gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c 1>&5 configure:1323: checking for opendir in -ldir configure:1342: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -ldir 1>&5 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldir collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure: failed program was: #line 1331 "configure" #include "confdefs.h" /* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */ /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2 builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */ char opendir(); int main() { opendir() ; return 0; } configure:1406: checking for ANSI C header files configure:1419: gcc -E conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out configure:1486: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c 1>&5 configure:1513: checking for fcntl.h configure:1523: gcc -E conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out configure:1513: checking for stdlib.h configure:1523: gcc -E conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out configure:1513: checking for string.h configure:1523: gcc -E conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out configure:1513: checking for unistd.h configure:1523: gcc -E conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out configure:1552: checking for working const configure:1606: gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c 1>&5 configure:1627: checking for pid_t configure:1662: checking for vprintf configure:1690: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c 1>&5 configure:1769: checking for memmove configure:1797: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c 1>&5 configure:1769: checking for memset configure:1797: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c 1>&5 configure:1781: warning: conflicting types for built-in function `memset'' configure:1769: checking for strchr configure:1797: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c 1>&5 configure:1769: checking for strrchr configure:1797: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c 1>&5 configure:1769: checking for strtol configure:1797: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c 1>&5 configure:1769: checking for getopt configure:1797: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c 1>&5 configure:1769: checking for getopt_long configure:1797: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c 1>&5 configure:1901: checking for freetype-config configure:1980: checking for freetype/freetype.h configure:1990: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out configure:2026: checking for FT_Init_FreeType configure:2054: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 conftest.c -L/usr/local/lib -lfreetype -lz 1>&5 configure:2173: checking for expat.h configure:2183: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out configure:2179: expat.h: No such file or directory configure: failed program was: #line 2178 "configure" #include "confdefs.h" #include <expat.h> configure:2208: checking for xmlparse.h configure:2218: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out configure:2214: xmlparse.h: No such file or directory configure: failed program was: #line 2213 "configure" #include "confdefs.h" #include <xmlparse.h>