Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 16:00, Ryan Pugatchrpug@tripadvisor.com wrote:
Get the freetype source RPM and recompile it with the bytecode interpreter enabled.
Yup already did that too :(
BCI is the one thing that makes a world of difference in fonts in Linux... so if you are still having bad results, it's probably because you did something wrong in the middle of the process...
How did you do that? Did you change the without_bytecode_interpreter variable in the spec file? Did you install the RPM that you rebuilt? Did you restart X (with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) or reboot the machine after the upgrade? If you have a 64-bit machine, did you build and install a 32-bit RPM as well?
Would you care to show the output of "rpm -qi freetype"?
HTH, Filipe
Yes, I changed the variable in the spec and installed the RPM I built. I am on a 64-bit machine but did not install a 32-bit RPM.
Looks like there are two versions.. the original and mine. What should I do?
Requested output:
[rpug@localhost ~]$ rpm -qi freetype Name : freetype Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.2.1 Vendor: CentOS Release : 21.el5_3 Build Date: Fri 22 May 2009 10:04:13 AM EDT Install Date: Thu 27 Aug 2009 01:06:54 PM EDT Build Host: builder16.centos.org Group : System Environment/Libraries Source RPM: freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.src.rpm Size : 626801 License: BSD/GPL dual license Signature : DSA/SHA1, Fri 22 May 2009 05:22:59 PM EDT, Key ID a8a447dce8562897 URL : http://www.freetype.org Summary : A free and portable font rendering engine Description : The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library. Name : freetype Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.2.1 Vendor: (none) Release : 20 Build Date: Thu 27 Aug 2009 04:24:21 PM EDT Install Date: Thu 27 Aug 2009 04:25:44 PM EDT Build Host: localhost.localdomain Group : System Environment/Libraries Source RPM: freetype-2.2.1-20.src.rpm Size : 655297 License: BSD/GPL dual license Signature : (none) Packager : Pugatch Ryan URL : http://www.freetype.org Summary : A free and portable font rendering engine Description : The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library.