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[Michael Hass]

After running MS for a bunch of months on Linux without
freetype, etc. I thought I would finally step up to 
the "majors". I have a chicken and egg question though.

Originally, I placed proj4, freetype, etc (didn't compile) provided the
location
in the makefile, ran the make, then created a path using
LD_LIBRARY_PATH instructions that Steve provided to 
the list in January. I added a ttf file, referenced it
in the font file and low and behold....crash.

Do I need to compile each of the component programs first,
create the path statement and then compile MS for it to
recognize this stuff?

Any comments to this unix/linux rookie would be appreciated.
Thanks
Mike