2011/5/13 Zé <mmode...@gmail.com>: > 2011/5/13 Dimitrios Glentadakis <dgl...@gmail.com>: >> Στις Παρασκευή 13 Μάιος 2011 00:39:55 Zé γράψατε: >>> 2011/5/12 Dick Gevers <dvgev...@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