The ftgl_pic is a Debian "feature" and doesn't come with FTGL. I don't
think that the renaming is a good thing and having two versions
(-ftgl and -lftgl_pic) just complicates things and helps in only very
few cases.

Anyhow, the gem configure should check for -lftgl_pic and if this
is not available use -lftgl, just like the tcl/tk stuff in pd does.

On my system it doesn't work like this and just _use_ -lftgl, so the build stops with the above error.

> the simple solution to your problem is to edit the Make.config and
> change "-lftgl_pic" to "-lftgl"

So, despite Günter's doubts, I tried to change the Make.config. Gem got built, but when I try to load the library in PD, I get the following error>>

/home/kliger/cvs_20051128/Gem/src/Gem.pd_linux: /home/kliger/cvs_20051128/Gem/src/Gem.pd_linux: undefined symbol: glUniform4iARB
/home/kliger/cvs_20051128/Gem/src/Gem: can't load library

Oh well. When I have the time, I'll consider using Debian so that I have the same system as the Gem dev people. But until then, I need text rendering in Gem so I'll continue using my old Gem (but without gemlist_info which I've grown to like). So unless anyone has a brilliant idea, thanks anyway.
/Brad.