I just downloaded the source tarball for freetype 2.1.3 and rebuilt it. This is the same version as the RPM binary package that comes from Red Hat. I'm puzzled at Red Hat's packaging. As built from source, freetype only builds libfreetype*. But the RPM also has libttf.whatever and a libfreetype.so.6.2.0 which is not built by the source tarball. Anybody know what's going on? Why am I even bothering with this? Hint: Red Hat's freetype is crippled. TrueType fonts look much better -- with or without antialiasing -- when bytecode interpretation is turned on. I know the usual explanation: patent question, CYA, yadda, yadda. But that does not explain why freetype comes with bytecode interpretation turned off but xfs/libXfont has bytecode interpretation turned on. Chris
