I know that if you use a more recent package and it breaks, you get to keep both halves, but ....
I just ran into a problem that BLFS users will want to watch out for. It seems that the latest version of freetype, 2.3.2, has a terrible bug, if the bytecode interpreter is enabled (which most people do), that causes truetype fonts under X to be rendered as if they are "on fire", "burnt" or "smoking", i.e., with really strange artifacts. This problem could be mistaken for an Xorg or XFree86 driver problem. Someone posted a screen shot showing it here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=149788 The freetype developers know about the problem and a corrected version is imminent: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2007-03/msg00028.html Freetype sure has had its share of buggy releases lately. I'm hoping 2.3.3 is a winner. ;) Cheers, Mike Shell -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
