[Mageia-dev] why not disable bytecode interpreter in freetype2 ?

Fri May 13 05:45:05 CEST 2011

Στις Παρασκευή 13 Μάιος 2011 00:39:55 Zé γράψατε:
+> 2011/5/12 Dick Gevers <dvgevers at xs4all.nl>:
+> > On Thu, 12 May 2011 13:20:39 +0200, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote about Re:
+> > [Mageia-dev] why not disable bytecode interpreter in freetype2 ?:
+> >
+> >>When someone like me, has this problem of fonts, he cannot even use his
+> >>system, he has a real problem. It costed me many uninstalls and installs
+> >>and many hours of investigation.
+> >>
+> >>For that i asked a user friendly solution, is very important for them who
+> >>are affected.
+> >>
+> >>Personnaly, after all, i am able now to set my pc to fit my needs but i
+> >>continue to search a solution for other users who will be front of this
+> >>problem in the future
+> >
+> > I can only make one suggestion - which works for me: keep the version one
+> > is happy with and put the packages in the urpmi skip.list and you won't get
+> > hurt by an upgrade.
+> >
+> > Cheers,
+> > =Dick Gevers=
+> >
+> 
+> You always rebuild the freetype2 package, to do soedit the .spec file,
+> in the section %prep add this:
+> 
+> perl -pi -e 's|#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER|/\*
+> #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER  \*/|'
+> include/freetype/config/ftoption.h
+> 
+> 
+> dont forget to also increase Release to avoid conflicts with existant
+> freetype2, and then build the package.
+> 
+> 
+
+
+Why do all these things when you can simply add an entry in the font.conf file ?
+
+
+-- 
+Dimitrios Glentadakis
+