On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:55:24 -0600 Frank Cox wrote: > I don't see what I am doing wrong, or why this isn't working for me. I seem to have gone from a rebuild failure to an installation failure. Looking at this spec file: http://dl.atrpms.net/all/freetype-static-f11.spec I copied what appeared to be the relevant lines out of that into the freetype.spec that I have in my rpmbuild/SPECS directory, so now the "Build Freetype 2" section looks like this: # Build Freetype 2 { %configure --disable-static sed -i 's|^hardcode_libdir_flag_spec=.*|hardcode_libdir_flag_spec=""|g' builds/unix/libtool sed -i 's|^runpath_var=LD_RUN_PATH| runpath_var=DIE_RPATH_DIE|g' builds/unix/libtool make X11_PATH=/usr %{?_smp_mflags} } That actually worked and it built me this in my RPMS/x86_64 directory: freetype-2.2.1-21.x86_64.rpm freetype-demos-2.2.1-21.x86_64.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-21.x86_64.rpm freetype-devel-2.2.1-21.x86_64.rpm Dandy, I thought. Since the ATI proprietary driver web page states that it requires the i386 stuff on an x86_64 machine, and since I appear to have both i386 and x86_64 versions of freetype installed, I did my build again using --arch-i386. And again, it worked: freetype-2.2.1-21.i386.rpm freetype-demos-2.2.1-21.i386.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-21.i386.rpm freetype-devel-2.2.1-21.i386.rpm Interestingly enough, to install these I had to use the --oldpackage parameter in the rpm command, otherwise it told me that a newer package was already installed. So: rpm -U rpm -U --oldpackage i386/freetype-2.2.1-21.i386.rpm x86_64/freetype-2.2.1-21.x86_64.rpm And all appeared to be well. I then logged out and the fun started. gdm crashed. Here is what it says in /var/log/messages: Nov 20 16:42:38 mutt kernel: gdm-binary[32281]: segfault at 00000000f5d8bd84 rip 00002b883bd87ee6 rsp 00000000f5d8bd78 error 6 Lots and lots of lines that tell me that, over and over. Logging in at a text console and running "yum update" brought me back to a working system again. The only thing I'm trying to do is to enable the bytecode interpreter on this system. So far, it's a failed attempt. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com