Since bugs on http://bugs.archlinux.org/ are too eagerly closed I'll have to ask here. I'm trying to build the latest "tuxonice-userui" since it's required by tuxonice-rc8. The compile of tuxoniceui_fbsplash fails with "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfreetype" The last command (the one that fails) is: cc -static userui_core.o fbsplash/userui_fbsplash.o -o tuxoniceui_fbsplash -lmng -lpng -ljpeg -lz -lfreetype -llcms -lm Now, there are /usr/lib/libmng.a /usr/lib/libpng.a /usr/lib/libjpeg.a /usr/lib/libz.a /usr/lib/liblcms.a /usr/lib/libm.a files on my ArchLinux but there's no /usr/lib/libfreetype.a static library. In http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11016 JGC claims: "Static libraries aren't needed to build static binaries. The makefiles contain hardcoded references to the .a files, which is wrong." Now, it's not true that the userui Makefile has a hardcoded reference to the .a file. And I don't see how to build a static binary either? Hints? -- damjan