On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 12:09, Christopher Wong wrote: > 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. You're making life difficult on yourself. Just download the freetype SRPM, install it with rpm -i, and turn on the bytecode interpreter with a simple change to the spec file. (I'm pretty sure it's the very first thing in the spec file, something like %define without_bytecode_interpreter). Then just rebuild from the spec file (rpmbuild -bb freetype.spec) . No need to bother with the freetype source tarball, which as you point out does things somewhat differently than the Red Hat SRPM. --Jeremy -- /=====================================================================\ | Jeremy Portzer jeremyp@xxxxxxxxx trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \=====================================================================/
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