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Enlightment installation and Imlib

I tried to intall E from source, but the ./configure shows error.. it cannot find Imlib version 1.9.8 or newer. I went to the E home page and downloaded Imlib2. I installed it and tried to install E again. The ./configure showed that mistake again. I wrote somewhere in the Imlib docs that the version 2 is not a version upgrade, but a clean new build. Is that bad? I couldn't find Imlib version betwen 1.9.8 and 2, although there is mentioned 1.9.14 in the web site.. It doesn't exist in the download section. So, does that problem has a tricky solution, or I just have to find that 1.9.8? Does someone know where from it can be downloaded? And will I need to uninstall the version 2 of that library before installing 1.9.X (and how can be done that)?

http://freshmeat.net/releases/14719/

Slack comes with 1.9.14. I typed 'imlib-1.9.8' into google. First result.

Imlib and imlib2 are entirely separate libs, is what it means about imlib2. You probably need both, so don't worry about that. But Pat discontinued E support because of naming conflicts regarding the libast library. Just so you know.

Thanks. I found and installed imlib.. now that config cries for fnlib ;) I found it too.. Maybe when I'm finished with E I'll have a thousands libraries that I wont need more than once ;)
Can I ask here if I experience some more problems with E?

Sure. Nobody can stop you but a mod. :) But compiling E and E-related apps is a big problem for everybody so be sure to search LQ and google first - odds are most problems have already been dsicussed. I was just posting in an Eterm thread around here and people linked to *another* E thread or two just in that one. But if you don't find anything relevant or what you do find doesn't make any sense (I know that feeling) post some followups.

(I like that sig, btw.) :)

Urgh.. I'm beginning to hate this E.. now it is freetype. I downloaded freetype2.1.4 (E requires 1.3.1 and newer, I think) and installed it via ./configure; make; make install. Then run ldconfig. Then I tried to configure (again, and again..) E. This time the error message was:

Code:

checking for freetype.h... no

checking for freetype/freetype.h... no

checking for TT_Init_FreeType in -lttf... no

ERROR: Enlightenment needs a system with libttf.so (TrueType Font Library)

...
I have freetype.h :

Code:

# locate freetype.h

/usr/X11R6/include/fontconfig/fcfreetype.h

/usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h

/usr/share/texmf/doc/help/Catalogue/entries/freetype.html

/usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h

/home/ivanatora/Archives/E/freetype-2.1.4/include/freetype/freetype.h

So does that E hate me, or I just have a lot of bad luck today?
Or maybe freetype must be configured with ./configure --some options? I read INSTALL.UNX file and looked at ./configure --help but didn't see anything unusual.
Now I'm going to install 1.3.1 and see if THEN it wont compile!
Btw, I like that sig, too :)

Well, I have freetype.h on my system, too, but I don't have libttf.so. That much is in the XFree86-devel packages. It's possible there's some conflict between the one freetype and the other, kind of like ksh's libast and Eterm's libast. Or maybe it installed someplace weird. Maybe see where libttf.so went.