I got interested in this for some reason a couple of months ago: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11016
"Doing a static x86_64 build of freetype increases the size of the tarball by 333KB (72% increase) and installed size by 824KB (47%)." Is that too much? All we need is remove --disable-static from the configure line and we get an additional .a. --vk
