Quote Originally Posted by dimitri
This is a bug introduced with Qt 4.1.1.

Qt 4.1.1 makes use of FT_Load_Sfnt_Table which is defined only in newer versions of the FreeType library (typically not the ones found on Red Hat 9 systems).

You'll have to remove the code that makes use of FT_Load_Sfnt_Table in file src/gui/text/qfontengine_x11.cpp.
Interesting, I've got the same problem on RedHat EL9. Do you know if Trolltech have been informed about the problem?