This time I only have a short question: Is the TrueType native bytecode compiler turned ON or OFF in SUSE 9.0? I installed the source RPM package for freetype-2.1.4 (the version that comes with SUSE 9.0). In original setting (see freetype-2.1.4/include/freetype/config/ftoptions.h), the native bytecode compiler is OFF. There is a SUSE patch (freetype2-bc.patch) that is supposed to turn it on---but it modifies a version-2.1.3 file, not the right, version-2.1.4 file [i.e. the very first line says "--- freetype-2.1.3.orig/<path to above file>"]. So, it is not clear whether or not the bytecode interpreter is on or off in the SUSE binary RPM. This might be a build problem (or maybe I am just too stupid to understand what's going on. M -- Marciano Siniscalchi Department of Economics Northwestern University http://www.faculty.econ.northwestern.edu/faculty/siniscalchi