Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Luca,

On Monday 23 August 2004 00:24, Luca Botti wrote:
> I exchanged some mails with Mike Fabian (mfabian on suse people) about
> the issue.
>
> The problem, from his words, is:
>
> "I believe the problem is that freetype 2.1.9 is not completely binary
> compatible to 2.1.7. As far as I know, it is binary compatible as far
> as the public API is concerned, but unfortunately some applications
> used internal freetype functions which have been changed. I.e. that is
> most likely a bug in the KDE fontinstaller, it shouldn't have used
> private freetype functions.
>
> As the above problem doesn't occur on the current development version
> of SuSE where all the KDE libraries are compiled against freetype
> 2.1.9, I think it is likely that the problem would go away on SuSE 9.1
> if the programs causing problems were recompiled against freetype
> 2.1.9.  Unfortunately this isn't easy for you and I also cannot easily
> supply updated versions of all KDE libraries."
>
> You can revert to the old freetype libraries.
>
> Bye


Can you explain why my SuSE 9.1 Pro upgraded to KDE 3.2.3 and thence to 
3.3.0 has a much older version of FreeType installed?

% rpm -q freetype
freetype-1.3.1-1150


I have not experienced any font-related problems, by the way.


Randall Schulz