hi thanks for your reply. I grabbed the temporary release you suggested from here > > http://download.gna.org/ngl/ngl.pkg/ngl-0.8.1_cvs20050822.tar.gz >
this time, everything was fine, until part way through ./make i got these errors: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/X11R6/include -Wall -g -pipe -D_DEBUG_ -I.. -I../include -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -MT font/nglFontBase_shr.lo -MD -MP -MF font/.deps/nglFontBase_shr.Tpo -c font/n glFontBase_shr.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o font/.libs/nglFontBase_shr.o font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:43: error: syntax error before `=' token font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp: In member function `void nglFontInfo::Dump(unsigned int) const': font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:167: error: 'struct FTC_ImageTypeRec' has no member named 'face_id' font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp: In copy constructor `nglFontBase::nglFontBase(const nglFontBase&)': font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:292: error: 'struct FTC_ImageTypeRec' has no member named 'face_id' font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp: In member function `bool nglFontBase::SetSize(float, nglFontUnit)': font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:449: error: `FTC_ScalerRec' undeclared (first use this function) font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:449: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:449: error: syntax error before `;' token font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:454: error: `ftscaler' undeclared (first use this function) font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:454: error: 'struct FTC_ImageTypeRec' has no member named 'face_id' font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:492: error: `FTC_Manager_LookupSize' undeclared (first use this function) font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:499: error: 'struct FTC_ImageTypeRec' has no member named 'face_id' font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:500: error: 'struct FTC_ImageTypeRec' has no member named 'width' font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:501: error: 'struct FTC_ImageTypeRec' has no member named 'height' font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp: In member function `int nglFontBase::GetGlyphIndexes(const nglChar*, int, uint*, int) const': font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:662: error: 'struct FTC_ImageTypeRec' has no member named 'face_id' font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:709: error: `gFTCMapCache' undeclared (first use this function) font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:709: error: `FTC_CMapCache_Lookup' undeclared (first use this function) font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp: In member function `void nglFontBase::Defaults()': font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:920: error: 'struct FTC_ImageTypeRec' has no member named 'face_id' font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:921: error: 'struct FTC_ImageTypeRec' has no member named 'width' font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:922: error: 'struct FTC_ImageTypeRec' has no member named 'height' font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp: In member function `bool nglFontBase::Init()': named 'face_id' font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp: In member function `bool nglFontBase::Load(const uint8*, int, unsigned int)': font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:991: error: 'struct FTC_ImageTypeRec' has no member named 'face_id' font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp: In member function `bool nglFontBase::Load(void*)': font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:1005: error: 'struct FTC_ImageTypeRec' has no member named 'face_id' font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp: In member function `bool nglFontBase::LoadFinish()': font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:1014: error: 'struct FTC_ImageTypeRec' has no member named 'face_id' font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:1014: error: `FTC_Manager_LookupFace' undeclared (first use this function) font/nglFontBase_shr.cpp:1071: error: `FT_Get_Charmap_Index' undeclared (first use this use this function) make[2]: *** [font/nglFontBase_shr.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/ngl-0.8.1_cvs20050822/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/ngl-0.8.1_cvs20050822' make: *** [all] Error 2 then when I tried ./configure --with-freetype=no ./make it compiled fine. please let me know if you think the above errors were due to the configuration of my system. thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]