Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:58:33 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au> To: Rob Furphy <rcf@ox.com> Cc: "freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Patchset 8 fonts Message-ID: <200005240128.KAA65329@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <392AB872.B5049B5A@ox.com> from Rob Furphy at "May 23, 2000 12:57:22 pm"
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Rob Furphy wrote:
> I'm having much success with patchset 8.
Thats a good thing :).
> FONTS:
> The initial font.properties file is unusable. I converted
> to using the one supplied from Robert Swindells
> (since it was handy) and everything looks much better,
> perhaps his should be the default?
>
> The 'Blackdown-like' one could be supplied but marked as such.
>
> What is the issue with using Robert's that caused the
> patchset to switch to blackdown in patchset 6?
There were two things here:
(a) The code was merged with that in the Java porting team's CVS
repository. They were using the current font.properties.
(b) Robert's font.properties doesn't work for me (XFree86 3.3.3.1), so
I was unsure that it was working for others. Are the URW fonts
standard with later versions of XFree86 or do they need to be
installed separately?
Can you please define "unusable" in terms of the current fonts? They
should be no more unusable than those in the Blackdown port which can
be run under emulation.
> FYI:
> I've also been testing this on another FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE box
> which is stripped (virtually nothing but the OS on it, Linux compat &
> java).
> Patchset 6 I ran a non-gui server type application on it no prob.
> I tested with patchset 8 and java would only crash with an unresolved
> external that indicated I needed to install lesstif on the machine. I
> did
> and now everything is working fine. My Question - Is having some kind
> of 'lesstif/motif' installed going to be a requirement to run the native
> FreeBSD java?
Ultimately, no. Hopefully we can make binary releases at some point, and
by then this problem should be resolved.
Thanks for the report Rob!
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Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au
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