Re: FreeType upgrade => apps linked against libttf.so need to be rebuilt

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Fine... I can live with that. 

-Joseph

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On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 13:04 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 12:07 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> > FreeType-2.1.x contains libttf.so as well as libfreetype.so. See Fedora
> > 4 & 5. 
> > 
> > 
> > In version 2.2.x, the true type font stuff has been incorporated into
> > libfreetype and libttf.so has been eliminated.
> 
> No, you are wrong.  The FreeType *Fedora package* was shipping both
> FreeType 1 and FreeType 2, so it included libttf.so.  When updating it
> to FreeType 2.2.1, I removed the FreeType 1 stuff.  That hit Rawhide
> this weekend.  I'm going to package freetype1 for extras.
> 
> To summarize, this has nothing to do with FreeType proper, or GNOME.
> Just a Fedora packaging issue.
> 
> behdad
> 
> > -Joseph
> > 
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> > 
> > On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 23:35 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> > > On 10/07/06, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <joseph_sacco comcast net> wrote:
> > > > FreeType has been upgraded from 2.1.x => 2.2.x. Freetype-2.2.x does
> > > > *not* contain libttf.so.  Applications that were linked against
> > > > libttf.so need to be rebuilt.
> > > 
> > > Unless I'm mistaken, isn't libttf.so the Freetype 1.x library?  It
> > > hasn't been present in any freetype-2.x release and is not compatible
> > > with the freetype-2.x series anyway (so it isn't just a case of
> > > needing to rebuild applications).
> > > 
> > > James.
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