I have all but given up trying to install enlightenment on RedHat 9. It seems the rpm requires libimlib.so.1 which conflicts with the
imlib1.9.1.13 that is already installed. So has anyone figured out a way around this?

Use xfce4 instead?

But seriously, haven't you tried the source install - RPM dependancies are a major pain.

I'm working from source and am having a different issue on RH9. It seems the configure file (and subsequently make) don't know where my freetype.h file is. How do I get it to find/locate this file? Its buried in /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h There's also a freetype1 directory at the same level as the freetype2 directory...but if memory serves configure is looking for the freetype2 one. I even went as far as copying the freetype.h out to /usr/include/ or maybe create a symlink of freetype pointing to /usr/include/freetype2 or possibly even one level deeper?

Blah. I looked through the configure and configure.in files to see if I could find where I could change its search path for this file - didn't see anything that looked like that to me.

might be to early for me to post this, but I got enlightenment "built" on RH 9.0
running might be another issue.

get, install fnlib-0.5.tar.gz
I use checkinstall to go from source to rpm, quite nice
http://checkinstall.izto.org

checkinstall dies on enightenment,
fatal error: getGname: too many gid's
so I used the rpmbuild -bb e.rh.spec to make the rpm

mv enlightenment-0.16.5.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
tar -xvzf enlightenment-0.16.5.tar.gz
mv enlightenment-0.16.5 enlightenment_for_GNOME-0.16.5
find enlightenment_for_GNOME-0.16.5 \*.h -exec grep freetype.h \{} \; -print
change them to <freetype1/freetype/freetype.h>
echo "write a TODO file" > enlightenment_for_GNOME-0.16.5/TODO
tar -cvzf enlightenment-0.16.5.tar.gz enlightenment_for_GNOME-0.16.5
rpmbuild -bb enlightenment_for_GNOME-0.16.5/e.rh.spec