Re: Mozilla with Freetype in Solaris

[email protected] (Hans Werner Strube) wrote:

> Has anybody got mozilla working with libfreetype in Solaris? I have built
> mozilla 1.5 in Solaris 7 with either gcc-2.95.3 or Sun Forte7; libraries
> freetype (2.1.5), gtk, glib (1.2.10) etc. self-compiled with Sun Forte.
> When I enable Freetype using fonts in /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/,
> the font table is generated correctly. But displaying texts with TrueType
> fonts does not show any letters but (if anything) horizontal lines only.
> My libfreetype works well with other programs, e.g., xpdf.

Now, a year later, I tested this with the "official" Solaris 8 SPARC
download of Firefox 1.0 and three independently compiled libfreetype.so.6
(two 6.3.4, one 6.3.2). The result is still the same! May be a byte-order
problem?

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 Hans Werner Strube          [email protected] (remove .XPAM)
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