it seems to me something's broken with (at least) revision 10549 and libwpg-0.2 I have all the header files but still get this: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -fopenmp -I/usr/include/ImageMagick -I/usr/include/libwpg-0.2 -I/usr/include/libwpd-0.9 -I/usr/include/poppler -D_REENTRANT -DQT_SHARED -pthread -I/usr/include/poppler/glib -I/usr/include/poppler -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng14 -I/usr/include/qt4 -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/libdrm -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\" -pthread -D_REENTRANT -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng14 -I/usr/include/qt4 -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/libdrm -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gtkspell-2.0 -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/giomm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/giomm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/lib64/pangomm-1.4/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/lib64/cairomm-1.0/include -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/gtk-unix-print-2.0 -I../cxxtest -I./bind/javainc -I./bind/javainc/linux -I./extension/dbus -Werror=format-security -Wall -Wformat -Wformat-security -W -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -O2 -march=core2 -msse4.1 --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=6144 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fopenmp -c -o extension/internal/bitmap/imagemagick.o extension/internal/bitmap/imagemagick.cpp extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:59:44: error: libwpg/WPGStreamImplementation.h: No such file or directory that's because there is no WPGStreamImplementation.h in libwpg-0.2; i can only see it in libwpg-0.1; I cross checked with debian, as the OP reports it's working there, but it's clear from http://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libwpg-dev/filelist that there is no such file in libwpg-0.2; I am on an up2date Gentoo box and these are the files I have for libwpg: blackknight ~ # equery f libwpg * Searching for libwpg ... * Contents of app-text/libwpg-0.1.3: /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/wpg2raw /usr/bin/wpg2svg /usr/bin/wpg2svgbatch.pl /usr/include /usr/include/libwpg-0.1 /usr/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg /usr/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGBinaryData.h /usr/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGBitmap.h /usr/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGBrush.h /usr/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGColor.h /usr/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGGradient.h /usr/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGPaintInterface.h /usr/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGPath.h /usr/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGPen.h /usr/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGPoint.h /usr/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGRect.h /usr/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGStreamImplementation.h /usr/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGString.h /usr/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGraphics.h /usr/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/libwpg.h /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/libwpg-0.1.la /usr/lib64/libwpg-0.1.so -> libwpg-0.1.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib64/libwpg-0.1.so.1 -> libwpg-0.1.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib64/libwpg-0.1.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib64/libwpg-stream-0.1.la /usr/lib64/libwpg-stream-0.1.so -> libwpg-stream-0.1.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib64/libwpg-stream-0.1.so.1 -> libwpg-stream-0.1.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib64/libwpg-stream-0.1.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib64/pkgconfig /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libwpg-0.1.pc /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libwpg-stream-0.1.pc * Contents of app-text/libwpg-0.2.0-r1: /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/wpg2raw-0.2 /usr/bin/wpg2svg-0.2 /usr/bin/wpg2svgbatch.pl-0.2 /usr/include /usr/include/libwpg-0.2 /usr/include/libwpg-0.2/libwpg /usr/include/libwpg-0.2/libwpg/WPGPaintInterface.h /usr/include/libwpg-0.2/libwpg/WPGraphics.h /usr/include/libwpg-0.2/libwpg/libwpg.h /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/libwpg-0.2.so -> libwpg-0.2.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib64/libwpg-0.2.so.2 -> libwpg-0.2.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib64/libwpg-0.2.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib64/pkgconfig /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libwpg-0.2.pc /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/libwpg-0.2.0-r1 /usr/share/doc/libwpg-0.2.0-r1/AUTHORS.bz2 /usr/share/doc/libwpg-0.2.0-r1/ChangeLog.bz2 /usr/share/doc/libwpg-0.2.0-r1/NEWS.bz2