From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Jun 3 15:19:54 2010 X-Squirrel-UserHash: EhVcX1lFRQVaRwYcDQ== X-Squirrel-FromHash: UANfXlhEEQM= Message-ID: <3b62d18b86b10159c59128a5f6eda5fa-EhVcX1lFRQVaRwYcDTpQCEFddQZLVF5dQUBFBDBTXF5bVkYJXlhoA1VcMl5dRkAHVlhfQls=-webmailer2@server07.webmailer.hosteurope.de> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 21:17:03 +0200 Subject: [MiNT] Porting newer version of libfreetype From: "Ole Loots" To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Reply-To: ole@monochrom.net User-Agent: Host Europe Webmailer/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-HE-Access: Yes X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;ole@monochrom.net;1275592629;0191fb06; X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ole@monochrom.net Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Hello, it would be good to have a newer version of libfreetype for sparemint, because the netsurf browser can use that as an font backend if you configure it in the make files. The internal rendering seems to be buggy with Atari (and Amiga also, they suggest using freetype). Because the Netsurf freetype usage depends on some newer structs, I would like to port a newer version ( > 2.3.x ) . Frank Naumann ported the 2.0 package. He included some patches in the rpm. Is there an specific way how to transport these patches into the newer official releases? Or should I look into the 2.3.x sources, find the critical code lines and create new patches? Of course, I'm not talking about applying the patches to the current release... I just don't like the thought that we need to create a new patch, everytime we compile a new version.... Maybe there is an "official" way how to handle it... it seems a bit sad that fixes for sparemint (mostly) ain't go into the "official" packages :)