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

Fri May 13 11:12:41 CEST 2011

2011/5/13 Zé <mmodem00 at gmail.com>:
+> 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 ?
+>
+> Thats a fact, but hat should happen is that freetype2 should have
+> bytecode interpreter disabled by default, since so far users prefer
+> it.
+
+Seams Fedora choosed to finally fix it, it reverted freetype2 with a
+patch to disable bytecode interpreter. ->
+https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547532
+
+Why dont we also do the same thing?
+
+Since theres users complaining about it, why not solve it once for all?
+
+-- 
+Zé
+