[mcclim-devel] Re: Announcing McCLIM 0.9.2 "Laetare Sunday"

[Michael Livshin]

Nikodemus Siivola <nikodemus at random-state.net> writes:

> Michael Livshin <gmane at cmm.kakpryg.net> writes:
>
>> also, make sure your system has libfreetype.so (some Debian
>> installations lack it, so you'll have to make a symlink
>> libfreetype.so -> libfreetype.so.6).
>
> Lack of a symlink like that is usually an indication of a missing -dev
> package.

oh.  right you are!

still wondering what exactly the logic behind this is,
--m