Fontconfig is built with the traditional configure script:
$ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
If you checked out from the git repository (as opposed to downloading a
tarball), you need to run autogen.sh instead of configure:
$ ./autogen.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
Either way, that should generate valid Makefiles, then:
$ make
$ make install
If you're going to package fontconfig for release, there are several
important steps:
1. Create new version
sh new-version.sh 2.xx.xx
2. rebuild the configuration files with autogen.sh
./autogen.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --localstatedir=/var
3. make distcheck
4. Copy ChangeLog-2.x.y and fontconfig-2.x.y.tar.gz to
freedesktop.org:/srv/www.freedesktop.org/www/software/fontconfig/release
5. Update the Fontconfig Devel wiki page
http://fontconfig.org/wiki/Devel
6. Update the fontconfig documentation
scp -rp doc/fontconfig-user.html doc/fontconfig-devel freedesktop.org:/srv/www.freedesktop.org/www/software/fontconfig
7. Compute md5sums for release files:
md5sum fontconfig-2.4.x.tar.gz ChangeLog-2.4.x
8. Post a note to fontconfig@fontconfig.org. Include the md5sums.
gpg sign the message.