[XeTeX] Problem building XeTeX on Ubuntu 8.04

[Stephen Moye]

On Sunday, May 25, 2008, at 01:16PM, "Jonathan Kew" <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:
>On 25 May 2008, at 6:05 pm, Stephen Moye wrote:
>
>>  It appears that build-xetex thinks that libfontconfig is
>> not installed:
>>
>>   configure: error:
>> Cannot build XeTeX without libfontconfig.
>> Use the --with-fontconfig=DIR option to specify the prefix where
>> fontconfig is installed.
>>
>> configure: error: ../../../texk/web2c/configure failed for web2c
>> configure: error: ../../texk/configure failed for texk
>> ### configure script appears to have failed
>> ###### BUILDING LIBRARIES AND XETEX
>>
>> According to the 'Synaptic Package Manager" it is, and I think I found
>> it in /usr/lib:
>
>I suspect you only have the basic libfontconfig package installed,  
>which provides the library needed to *run* programs that use  
>fontconfig, but there'll be a separate package libfontconfig-dev (or  
>something like that) to provide the header files needed for  
>*compiling* other software.
>
>JK
>
>PS: personally, I wouldn't mess with building from within emacs or  
>similar. I just run
>
>    ./build-xetex 2>&1 | tee build.log
>
>which captures all the stdout and stderr output into a file, in  
>addition to letting it scroll past on the terminal. Then you can  
>peruse the log file at your leisure with emacs, vi, less, gedit, or  
>whatever you like.

That sound you hear is a chorus of angels rejoicing -- "xetex has been built" they sing...

Thank you very much, yet again.

Stephen