Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 14:23 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:

>    All this is worth it, right?  I'm sure it's gorgeous, but we seem  
> to have thrown portability right out the window here.  OSX/PPC v10.4,  
> OSX/x86 v10.6, and Solaris 10 are all dead in the water here.

The software in question is all perfectly portable, I think you are more
shooting yourself in the foot by eschewing package management. The stack
is complex to build, but that doesn't make it non-portable.

The OS X rendering bug comes close to being a portability problem,
unfortunately you're suffering on the front lines of our relative
inexperience with building these libraries on OS X.

As John can attest to.. the code does work on OS X, but there isn't
anyone here who is a real expert as to what recipe you need to build the
pieces outside of Fink.


Since I've not been able to find any other similar bug reports for other
cairo apps on OS X, I'm 99.9% sure there is "something" I've done wrong
in the rendering code which just happens not to be causing a problem
with the freetype + fontconfig / Linux back-end. I'd love to get that
fixed for Pango + cairo which uses OS X native text rendering, but a
simple work-around ought to be building the suite in a similar
configuration to Linux - with non-native text rendering.


Best wishes,

-- 
Peter Clifton

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