Re: 4.4 - Nearing the finish line [was Re: inconsistency between 4.4-cvs and 4.5 for default install]

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Saturday 06 March 2010, Manfred Schwarb wrote:
> > So I certainly believe you that your machine is trying to pull in
> > libexpat, but I don't know where/why this dependency creeps in.
> > One of life's little mysteries :-)
> > 
> 
> I did some digging, it seems you can build libfontconfig either with
> libexpat or with libxml2, at your will.
> My distribution (OpenSuse) decided to build libfontconfig with
> "configure --enable-libxml2=no", so that libexpat is used.
> No idea why they did like this.
>  
> What is your "gdlib-config --libs" output? Does it mention "-lxml2"?
> So then only the libexpat case would be broken.
> 
stonelion [386] gdlib-config --libs
-lXpm -lX11 -ljpeg -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lpng12 -lz -lm