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

Fri May 13 10:56:51 CEST 2011

2011/5/13 Dimitrios Glentadakis <dglent at gmail.com>:
+> 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 ?
+
+Forgot to refer that even when you set it in .fonts.conf you will
+still have it in some situations, check
+http://www.webmasterkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/opera-linux/2140/disabling-bytecode-interpreter-font-rendering
+
+> --
+> Dimitrios Glentadakis
+>
+
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+
+-- 
+Zé
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