Poppler 0.14.1 build issue

Question

I cannot build Poppler 0.14.1 from source code on CentOS 5.4. When I do ./configure it ends with a message like:

checking for FONTCONFIG... configure: error: Package requirements (fontconfig >= 2.0.0) were not met:

I have successfully built from source code, and installed

fontconfig 2.8.0

on that machine, and also set the PKG_CONFIG to point to the folder that contains the fontconfig.pc (/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/).

It is true that when I do $PKG_CONFIG --version fontconfig it gets echos '0.20' but the fontconfig.pc does write that the version of the library is 2.8.0. Also there are no other libfontconfig.so other then the one build from source on that machine, so I am sort of stuck and not sure what to do (except debugging configure)

Has anyone solved a similar case before? Thanks

Peter

Answer 1

Check if the package fontconfig-devel is installed. If not, install it and then try your build again.

Answer 2

For debian squezee, I've had to install packages manually from the sources:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/

(Download directly, not use the git because there are problems when configure)

And BTW, very useful guide to install poopler and dependences from the scratch:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/poppler.html