Hedgeroid: Misguided attempts at getting the connection lifecycle right.
Committing this because it basically runs this way, so i might want to revert to
it later :)
As a special exception, FreeType can also be built with the 'makepp'
build tool, available from http://makepp.sourceforge.net.
Note, however. that you will need at least version 1.19 and pass the
option --norc-substitution to have it work correctly.