Re: MrProject > 0.5.1 on RedHat 7.3?

Buchan Milne wrote:
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> Eli Carter wrote:
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>>A quick search in the archives for this list and a google didn't turn up
>>an answer, so...
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>>Is there a way to get mrproject 0.9 on RedHat 7.3?  I'd really like to
>>play with it some more, but moving to RedHat 8.0 would be, well, a
>>hassle I'd like to avoid.
>>A --rebuild of the SRPM for 0.9 quickly degenerated into a mess.
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> If you can not get Xft/fontconfig, you are not going to get
> gnome-print>=2.2, which means you will not be able to get 0.9 to compile.
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> Usually installing Xft/fontconfig on a system which does not support it
> will break fonts somewhere else ...
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> So, you probably need a more up-to-date distro.
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> Mandrake 9.0 does not do it even (no fontconfig till 9.1).

Well, bother.  I guess I'll look at RH8 then...

Thanks,

Eli
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