[Bug 16152] New: running ./configure on ubuntu 8.10 64-bit gives an error.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16152

Summary: running ./configure on ubuntu 8.10 64-bit gives an
                    error.
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.9
          Platform: PC-x86-64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: P1
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

I am running ubuntu 8.10 intrepid ibex amd64.

I have downloaded the source code of the latest version, 1.1.9.

Before I tried to compile it, I did:

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get build-dep wine

However, when I ran ./configure in the source directory, this error came up:

configure: error: FreeType development files not found.
Fonts will not be built. Dialog text may be invisible or unaligned.
Use the --without-freetype option if you really want this.

So I thought, maybe I need to file a bug about the list of needed dependencies
ubuntu has for wine, and typed in:

sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev

However, this returned:

libfreetype6-dev is already the newest version.

So why isn't wine configure picking it up? I can install wine .deb packages and
they work fine, so I will just wait a few days 'till 1.1.9 becomes available in
the packages archive. Still, I think it's a pretty sever bug if one can't
compile the source on the 64-bit version of the most popular distro around.