build configure script error

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Rajinder Yadav wrote:

> I am trying to build cairo from tarbar source but when I run the configure script I keep getting the following error:
> 
> configure: error: Cairo requires at least one native font backend.  Please install FreeType and fontconfig and try again.
> 
> I have both the font backend installed. I even went and rebuilt them (again) from source and was able to build each successfully. Yet! cairo config script keeps barfing out, still.
> 
> Anyone here know what I might have to do?

   You probably need to install the -devel versions of those packages
   so that configure can find the header files.

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