gEDA: Could not load question font char -- check font-directory keyword

[sdb@cloud9.net (Stuart Brorson)]

Hi guys,

I've been beavering away on gattrib -- my attribute editor -- for a
while.  I am putting it together by stealing tons of code from gschem,
gnetlist, and gtkextra.  Now I am trying to get the dialog boxes to
work properly, and I have encountered the following run-time error:

"Could not load question font char -- check font-directory keyword"

This apparently occurs inside "o_text_load_font" which lives in
libgeda-20040111/src/o_text_basic.c.  The code snippet is here:

------------------------------------------------------------
  if (access(temp_string, R_OK) != 0) {
    s_log_message("Could not find character %c definition\n",
needed_char,
                  temp_string);
    free(temp_string);
    temp_string =
        g_strdup_printf("%s%cquest.sym", w_current->font_directory,
                        PATH_SEPARATER_CHAR);
    if (access(temp_string, R_OK) != 0) {
      fprintf(stderr,
              "Could not load question font char -- check
font-directory keyword\n");
      exit(-1);
    }
    not_found = TRUE;
  }
------------------------------------------------------------

THis is executed after looking for various chars in the font
directory, as far as I can tell.  

My question:  What is o_text_load_font looking for, and where?  What
do I have to tell it to make it find the proper fonts?  This works
fine in gschem, but I am not sure where gschem configures the fonts,
or if I can somehow just bypass this stage. . . .

Thanks,

Stuart

p.s. Thanks for the replies to my question about u_basic_strdup.  It
doens't eat strings.  I just had my head wedged. . . . .