Re: compiling XF4 on potato? (fwd)

[Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>]

SK>  I installed freetype2-dev to get the freetype headers in the first
SK>  place. I also noticed that in the command above we have
SK>  "-I/usr/include/freetype2" while the include files for freetype are in
SK>  "/usr/include/freetype" (notice the missing "2"). Making a symlink from
SK>  freetype to freetype2 didn't help though.

The Debian ``freetype2'' package is FreeType version 1.3 (go figure).
So your symlink is incorrect.

For Xft, you really need FreeType version 2.  I don't know if it's
packaged yet, but you may get the sources from www.freetype.org.  Or
else you could try building without Xft.

                                        Juliusz