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Understanding freetype packaging

Understanding freetype packaging

2003-04-22       - By Christopher Wong

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I just downloaded the source tarball for freetype 2.1.3 and rebuilt it.
This is the same version as the RPM binary package that comes from Red
Hat. I 'm puzzled at Red Hat 's packaging. As built from source, freetype
only builds libfreetype*. But the RPM also has libttf.whatever and a
libfreetype.so.6.2.0 which is not built by the source tarball. Anybody
know what 's going on?

Why am I even bothering with this? Hint: Red Hat 's freetype is crippled.
TrueType fonts look much better -- with or without antialiasing -- when
bytecode interpretation is turned on. I know the usual explanation: patent
question, CYA, yadda, yadda. But that does not explain why freetype comes
with bytecode interpretation turned off but xfs/libXfont has bytecode
interpretation turned on.

Chris