From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 31 00:29:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7438016A4CE; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:29:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.199.47.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C5B443D54; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:29:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2489A51288; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:29:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:29:28 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20041231002928.GA38257@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20041230213022.GA28560@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041230213022.GA28560@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: URGENT: Need a Redhat 8 RPM of freetype 2.1.7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:29:16 -0000 --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:30:22PM -0800, 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. >=20 > An update to freetype 2.1.4 or newer (preferably 2.1.7) should fix > these problems, but RedHat did not seem to make available any updates > to the freetype package. >=20 > Is anyone able to generate (or tell me where I can find) an updated > freetype package compatible with redhat 8.0? Thanks to Joseph Gelinas , I now have a 2.1.5 package that seems to work. Kris --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB1J1nWry0BWjoQKURAkvsAKDK95mtTcaVgLNqLxdroXHK3c5Y8wCdGCh2 jzV4FkuRT7emrxq4UbgOiVs= =zTHY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g--