[Image-SIG] Compile problem with 1.1.4 and freetype2

[Theo. Sean Schulze]

Hello,

I am trying to build PIL 1.1.4 on a Slackware-current system running 
kernel 2.6.4.  gcc is 3.3.3.  I have freetype2 2.1.7 installed from 
source with --prefix=/usr set during configuration.  libImaging seems to 
build ok, at least it does not produce any errors when it compiles after 
the make command.  I then change to the base directory Imaging-1.1.4 and 
issue the command `python setup.py build`.  Whether I issue the command 
as a user or as root, I get the following output:

building '_imagingft' extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -O3 -march=i486 -mcpu=i686 
-fPIC -IlibImaging -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/python2.3 -c 
_imagingft.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/_imagingft.o
In file included from _imagingft.c:18:
/usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:20:2: #error "`ft2build.h' 
hasn't been included yet!"
/usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:21:2: #error "Please always 
use macros to include FreeType header files."
/usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:22:2: #error "Example:"
/usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:23:2: #error "  #include 
<ft2build.h>"
/usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:24:2: #error "  #include 
FT_FREETYPE_H"
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Can someone offer me some advice as to how to fix this?

TIA,
Sean