Bug 27458 – User shoul be able to switch ON the compilation of bytecode interpreter at freetype2 ebuild.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Alexey Starinsky 2003-08-27 23:44:38 UTC]

Fonts are looking ugly even if antialiasing is ON. 
I know that the reason is: bytecode interpreter at freetype2 package is OFF by 
default. All that is because of patent issues, I've read it. 

But if I live at country where their patents are not valid, I'd like to have a 
possibility to switch it ON when compile. Or may be this possibility is not 
documented?

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-08-28 10:24:00 UTC]

root@vapier 0 freetype # emerge freetype -pv

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.4-r1  -doc +zlib -bindist 

root@vapier 0 freetype # grep bindist /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc 
bindist - Flag to enable or disable options for prebuilt (GRP)  packages (eg. due to licensing issues)

[Comment 2 Alexey Starinsky 2003-08-29 01:40:41 UTC]

Sorry, may be I do not get the idea:
I do not use pre-built packages at all, and just want to compile the library _using_ bytecode interpreter at freetype2.

Is it ON by default when compiled on my computer? 
I tried and it seemed to me that rather not.
Am I wrong? 

P.S.
I saw KDE with freetype2 bytecode interpreter ON and OFF on friend's Mandrake9.1 distro (it is ON when freetype2 rpm is installed from PLF). The difference is _obvious_ for 'arial', 'verdana' and 'sans' fonts, especilally when antialiasing is OFF.

[Comment 3 Alexey Starinsky 2003-08-29 07:26:32 UTC]

In other words: Is it possible to check, whether the bytecode interpreter is ON?
Thanks in advace and forgive me if I'm just stupid and annoy you.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2003-08-29 14:08:46 UTC]

look to see if you 'bindist' in /var/db/pkg/media-libs/freetype-*/USE 
 
if you dont, `env USE=bindist emerge freetype` 

[Comment 5 Alexey Starinsky 2003-09-01 08:17:41 UTC]

Thanks for your valuable help and assistance, I undersood the idea.
The bug can be closed.

[Comment 6 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-03-29 08:28:15 UTC]

*** Bug 87121 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Bernard Edlington 2005-03-29 08:43:25 UTC]

unfortunately even when I apply the resolution to this bug "USE=bindist emerge freetype" there is still a ewarning saying bytecode has NOT been sucessfull.
 to emerge with bytecode use my attachment at bug 87121