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

[Dimitrios Glentadakis]

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