For PHP3 to work easily out of the box using the gd module, it needs libttf.so - this is available in the freetype rpm, but that rpm needs to have X installed. Earlier builds of freetype-devel-1.2 had the shared object; as does the one on freetype.org
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Preston, can you make any sens out of this?
This is true, the freetype rpm does have some files (utilities) which depend on X, so the whole package picks up an X dependency. You can force installation of the RPM and get around the dependency; if you don't ever use the utilities (which require X) you will not have any problems. In the future we may split off the utilities into a separate package, which would remove the X dependency on the core freetype package. However, we won't move it into the devel RPM; the devel rpm should only contain things needed for development, and the shared library is needed by runtime (already compiled) applications. ------- Email Received From idcmp.org 06/21/99 18:27 -------