[MPlayer-users] freetype questions

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 06 September 2002, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> > > > maybe i should ask mandrake to upgrade to freetype2.1..
> > > They will upgrade to 2.1 after the release of Mandrake 9.0. There were
> > > incompatibilities between freetype 2.1 and OpenOffice.org, that's why
> > > they are still at 2.0.9.
> > > 
> > > Anyway, you can use my Mandrake package of MPlayer, it has been
> > > patched for building with freetype 2.0.9, as it works for me.
> > 
> > Could you send me this patch? RH 7.3 comes with 2.0.9, too.
> > Freetype support is not built into the official packages by default,
> > but I'd like to try it out anyway.
> > 
> > BTW: I thought ft 2.0.9 doesn't have this problem, does it?
> 
> it seems 2.0.9 works, maybe it's fixed in that.
> at least 2.0.7 does not work, dunno about 2.0.8
> mayeb teh check should be changed to require >=2.0.9 instead of >=2.1.0

There's a patch by Andreas Hess floating around in -dev-eng. You'll find it
easily in this month's archive:
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 23:08:04 +0200
From: Andreas Hess <jaska at gmx.net>
Subject: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Just in case someone cares about poor freetype 2.0 users
 
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