From owner-freebsd-java Tue May 23 18:29: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au (ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.246.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9117737BAF1 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 18:28:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA65329; Wed, 24 May 2000 10:58:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <200005240128.KAA65329@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Patchset 8 fonts In-Reply-To: <392AB872.B5049B5A@ox.com> from Rob Furphy at "May 23, 2000 12:57:22 pm" To: Rob Furphy Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:58:33 +0930 (CST) Cc: "freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL70 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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! -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message