Re: Building GNUstep on Solaris

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi Fred,

> This is not a loop in GNUstep, as your other mail suggests. The
> recursion is working as expected as you can see on the decreasing level
> parameter (Don't expect me to explain the details of the 
> GSLayoutManager
> here, you really don't want to know).

:-)

> What goes wrong is the glyph lookup in the font. The character it
> searches the glyph for is 64256. This is the "ff" ligature and it your
> font doesn't support it, it should just return NULL from the function
> FTC_CMapCache_Lookup. But there is one thing that could be strange 
> here,
> the cmap_index is 0, this could be correct or the result of a missing
> FT_ENCODING_UNICODE encoding in this font. The code in [FTFontInfo
> -initWithFontName:matrix:screenFont:] doesn't differentiate between
> these two cases.
> Looks like your font is not suitable for GNUstep and the code doesn't
> detect this correctly.

        ls /opt/GNUstep/Local/Library/Fonts/

Helvetica.nfont

Shouldn't this work with the only font that comes with GNUstep?

Thanks a lot,

 Andreas