Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:39:41 +0100 From: albi <albi@scii.nl> To: emulation@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: URGENT: Need a Redhat 8 RPM of freetype 2.1.7 Message-ID: <41D483AD.6000808@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <20041230213022.GA28560@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20041230213022.GA28560@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > We're in the process of trying to update the linux_base support from > 7.x (which has security vulnerabilities that will never be fixed) to > 8.0, as a minimal fix that will allow FreeBSD 4.11 to ship with a > working linuxulator. This is working, except RH 8.0 includes an old > version of freetype that does not understand gzipped fonts, and > doesn't recognise some truetype fonts. As a result, font rendering of > linux applications on FreeBSD is extremely poor. you got already some (apparently) good looking answers, just wanted to remark that (i found out some days ago) that the ports-system has a few new ports here : linux_base-rh-9 and linux_base-suse-9.1 and the formely broken port linux_base-gentoo-stage1 is working again! :) by the way, i wonder how one could help fix the broken linux_base-debian ?
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