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

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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?

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Zé