Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware-player fonts unreadable

[Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org>]

Michael George wrote:
> Has anyone else run into this?  Is it perhaps the emulation libraries
> being a problem?

Most certainly. Though for most people experiencing font problems after
upgrading the emul-packages, this only lead to "blurry fonts". The
problem is that we're distributing a 32bit copy of freetype in
emul-linux-x86-xlibs. As it's binary, we have to use USE=bindist to
avoid legal problems. Unfortunately that means that some dll-loading
code is replaced with some other code, which is why the fonts suddenly
look different.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167632

As for the solution: You can a) build your own freetype [1] or b)
convince me that we won't run into legal problems when distributing a
USE=-bindist freetype :)

[1] See http://amd64.gentoo.org/emul for some hints


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Kind Regards,

Simon Stelling
Gentoo/AMD64
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