Re: Build from source, get terrible fonts

Joerg Mertens <joerg-mertens@t-online.de> wrote:

What do these "-dev"-packages contain? Shared objects? Header files?
Where are these installed in relation to the system development
files?

For distro's that do this splitting, the "-dev" packs usually contain
the header files, any *.a files (if static linking is an option), and
any other misc. "development" (i.e., needed to compile, vs. simply run
and link to the shared object) files.