Date: 29 Sep 2001 14:24:33 -0000 From: Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: Adam Nealis <adamnealis@yahoo.co.uk>, "R.Lahaye" <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net> Subject: ports/30912: [PATCH] port editors/AbiWord fails to set the X font path Message-ID: <20010929142433.29003.qmail@cobweb.example.org>
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>Number: 30912
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: [PATCH] port editors/AbiWord fails to set the X font path
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Sep 29 07:30:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Marco Molteni
>Release: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
the Puck Forest
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE
>Description:
The post-installation message (pkg-message) of the AbiWord port doesn't give
enough information to correctly configure the X server, expecially if the X
server is XFree86 version >= 4. This causes the AbiWord program to fail during
initialization.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install the port on a system with XFree86 >= 4 and try to run AbiWord.
>Fix:
The following patch to pkg-message attempts to explain fully what needs to be
done in order to successfully install and run AbiWord.
To fix the problem you should apply the patch and bump up the port revision
number, I think.
--- pkg-message.orig Sat Sep 29 15:32:41 2001
+++ pkg-message Sat Sep 29 15:47:48 2001
@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
-If you are going to display AbiWord on the remote X server please make sure
-that files from the ${PREFIX}/share/AbiSuite/fonts directory available to
-your remote X server and add ${PREFIX}/share/AbiSuite/fonts into server's
-font path. For XFree86, add the line:
+In order to use AbiWord, you may have to add one or more lines to
+/etc/X11/XF86Config.
+
+For any XFree86 version, add the following line to the "Files" section:
FontPath "${PREFIX}/share/AbiSuite/fonts"
-in the "Files" section of your /etc/XF86Config file. If you use a different
-X server, please see its documentation on how to do this.
+For XFree86 >= 4, add also the following line to the "Module" section:
+
+Load "type1"
+
+Also, if you are going to display AbiWord on a remote X server, besides
+following the instructions above, please make sure that the files in the
+${PREFIX}/share/AbiSuite/fonts directory are available to the remote X server.
+If you use an X server different from XFree86, please see its documentation
+on how to set the font path.
Then re-start your X server.
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