[XeTeX] could not build in Debian linux!

[Ralf Stubner]

Kia Teymourian <kia at teymourian.de> writes:

> hi,
> i followed the instructions for installing the XeTeX on Linux and wanted 
> to build it for my debian system.  I installed also all the necessary  
> packages and started the  "sh build-xetex", which broke with this massage:
>
> In file included from 
> ../../../texk/web2c/xetexdir/XeTeXLayoutInterface.h:36,
>                  from ../../../texk/web2c/xetexdir/XeTeX_ext.c:68:
> ../../../texk/web2c/xetexdir/XeTeXFontMgr.h:40:35: error: 
> fontconfig/fontconfig.h: No such file or directory

You have to install the fontconfig development package. For me using
Debian Sarge that is libfontconfig1-dev:

$ dlocate fontconfig.h
libfontconfig1-dev: /usr/include/fontconfig/fontconfig.h

cheerio
ralf