-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Net Llama! spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: > On 10/27/2002 04:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 08:59:48AM +0000, Pam R wrote: > >>Interesting article on using Freetype fonts with linux. Amongst other > >> things it says that Freetype2 should be installed _twice_; in /usr/local > >> and in /usr/X11R6. Does anyone know why? > >> > >>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27788.html > > > > Perhaps because they don't know what they're doing? X from CVS should > > handle all of this pretty handily. > > Except that X uses an old, and broken implimentation of freetype. Read > the README's that come with freetype for the reasoning. X is at fault, > not freetype.
with any version of X except for *most* recent CVS, the version of Freetype included with X is flat-out broken. And it wasn't smart enough to look at your system Freetype. The upcoming 4.3 fixes this. that's why pam. - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org LSD melts in your mind, not in your hand. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9vtaFSrrWWknCnMIRArdcAKCEUo4GMkssSeZhkCth4B0h0uq4sACdGYW4 UOhruwtK8j3lndGHdwuPM9Y= =3mEL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
