> so I think we should build and distribute
> libfreetype.so in /usr/X11R6/lib, much as libGL.so and libXpm.so are
> currently built and distributed in /usr/X11R6/lib.

Is FreeType people keeping ABI of libfreetype.so sanely?
Having libfreetype.a is fine. But having *.so may be a problem,
if the library authors doesn't manage major number of shared
object correctly....
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