From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HQ6ln-0007bo-Rl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:58:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2AIu1Ph012841; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:56:01 GMT Received: from buggy.blubb.ch (cable-static-87-245-102-53.shinternet.ch [87.245.102.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2AIu0O1012836 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:56:00 GMT Received: from cable-static-87-245-102-53.shinternet.ch ([87.245.102.53] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by buggy.blubb.ch with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1HQ6h6-0001jA-Be for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:53:28 +0100 Message-ID: <45F2FF5A.1070608@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:56:26 +0100 From: Simon Stelling User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware-player fonts unreadable References: <20070308235742.GA13331@brego.pewamo.office> In-Reply-To: <20070308235742.GA13331@brego.pewamo.office> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 809c5a9f-6296-4984-86f4-cb24c371656c X-Archives-Hash: d1c42ff93b4117e111ae118a93ba67e9 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 -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list