URGENT: Need a Redhat 8 RPM of freetype 2.1.7

[Frank J. Cameron]

On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 15:52 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> > ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.os/freetype-2.1.7-4.i386.rpm
> Will it works on RedHat 8.0? I doubt anyone can find freetype 2.1.4 or  
> above for RedHat 8.0, only way is to create a RPM on our own. I don't know  
> how to create RPM stuff.

I don't think I have a RedHat 8 box handy, but, it might work to take
the 2.1.7 source rpm from Fedora and rebuild it on a RedHat 8 box:

	rpm -i freetype-2.1.7.src.rpm
	cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
	rpmbuild -bb freetype.spec
	cd ../RPMS/i386