better user messages

[Sylvain Petreolle]

> Actually, the development libraries *are* needed,
> though the headers are
> > not. This is because the dlopen tries to load
> "libfreetype.so", NOT
> > "libfreetype.so.6". And, at least on Debian, only
> the dev package provides
> > the libfreetype.so symlink, the library package
> itself only contains
> > libfreetype.so.6. (This issue is Debian bug
> #146136.)
> Ah, thanks for enlightening us ! :-)
> 
> (that's probably what prompted me to add this
> message in the first place)
> 
> As it's probably only a Debian specific bug (or
> isn't it ?),

It isn't. I'm using freetype 2.0.9-2 under RH 7.3
and the symlink isn't provided.
It's provided by the freetype-devel package.

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