build configure script error

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:26:14PM -0700, 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?

Are the header files for those libs installed in the standard locations?

Did you check the config.log to see tha actual error?  Configure scripts
can be totally stupid sometimes by failing one test due to assuming
something else they didn't test.

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