[Scribus] ./configure appears to not like my qt installation

[Peter Linnell]

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 16:02, james at jwm-art.net wrote:
> I had a working version of scribus1.0 running happily on my system. 
> Then I found scribus1.1.1 on LXF dvd.  
> 
> It paused for some time during ./configure while checking for qt.  I was
> using qt3.0.3  I decided to recompile qt with thread support as
> mentioned but it came up with errors so I downloaded qt3.2.3 and
> compiled that with thread support (and --no-exceptions).  (it took
> around 5 hours on my 266!)
> 
> config.log says:
> 
> configure:13580: rm -rf SunWS_cache; g++ -o conftest -O2 -fno-exceptions
> -fno-check-new -I/usr/local/qt/include -I/usr/X11R6/include 
> -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT  -D_REENTRANT  -L/usr/local/qt/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib 
>  conftest.cc -lnsl  -lqt-mt -lpng -lz -lm -ljpeg -ldl  -lXext -lX11 -lSM
> -lICE  -lresolv -lpthread 1>&5
> /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined reference to
> `FT_Get_PS_Font_Info'
> /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to
> `FT_Stream_GetShort'
> /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to
> `FT_Stream_ExitFrame'
> /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to
> `FT_Stream_GetLong'
> /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `FT_Stream_Seek'
> /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to
> `FT_Stream_EnterFrame'
> /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined reference to
> `FT_Get_BDF_Property'
> 
> 
> the ref to libfontconfig worries me slightly as configuring fonts is
> something that has confused me greatly with linux and I've got no idea
> what is working on my system.  I've tried compiling various font stuff -
> no idea if it's being used or not.
> 
> i'm running debian3.0.r1 with xf86 4.3 gcc2.95
> 

which version of freetype do you have ?

It sounds like your freetype is too old. Scribus needs 2.10, but
preferebly 2.1.3

Peter