I just noticed that the xlibs package (version 4.0.2-1) doesn't provide the shared libraries for some of the libraries, Xrender and Xft to name a few. The static versions of these are however available in xlibs-dev. The binary distro of Xfree86 from xfree86.org however has these in Xbin.tgz. Is it a bug in the packages or are they included in some other package that I haven't installed. Also the xlibs-dev package doesn't seem to provide Xft/XftFreetype.h. No bugs seems to have been filed regarding these problems however. I just wanted to confirm before filing a bug report.
Vijay.