[Lazarus] RE : RE : RE : RE : RE : Lazarus on Solaris 10

[Ludo Brands]

> 
> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> > Ludo Brands wrote:
> > 
> >>> One of the (few) other things I'm having trouble with is running
> >>> gtk-demo, but I was going to leave detailed investigation of that 
> >>> until after I'd got compilation sorted out.
> >>>
> >>> No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig 
> library is 
> >>> not correctly configured. You may need to edit the fonts.conf 
> >>> configuration file. More information about fontconfig can 
> be found 
> >>> in the fontconfig(3) manual page and on http://fontconfig.org
> >>>
> >>> It doesn't exist- by default at least- on the Debian systems I've 
> >>> got
> >>> here, so I've got little to compare the Solaris GTK setup with.
> >>>
> >>
> >> When you have installed fontconfig you'll have the fc-list command 
> >> that lists the fonts available. On my system I have fonts in 
> >> /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts with links from 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts 
> >> and /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts. Check in /etc/fonts/font.conf if the 
> >> correct dir is specified. I don't have the fontconfig command 
> >> neither.
> > 
> > fc-list run as myself (i.e. non-root) returns nothing. Run 
> as root it
> > returns a list of fonts. Run as root with 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib 
> > returns nothing. Think I've got a problem here...
> 
> The situation appears to be that there are two distinct fontconfig 
> systems, e.g.
> 
> /usr/bin/fc-list
> /etc/fonts.conf
> 
> and
> 
> /usr/local/bin/fc-list
> /usr/local/etc/fonts.conf
> 

Same on my system. Except that fonts.conf resides in etc/fonts/fonts.conf.

When you install fontconfig (from SFW) it assumes fonts are installed in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts.
This is also the directory I find in /usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf. But on
my system, as indicated earlier, this directory contains symlinks to the
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts subdirs.
The fact that you have different results as root and user is because you
adapted probably your PATH as user to include /usr/loc/bin. Which fc-list
gives you probably a different result as root and as user. If you run
/usr/local/bin/gtk-demo as root it will probably run.

The simplest solution to your problem is to change or add the
<dir>/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts</dir> entry in
/usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf 

> I can't simply do a hack like symlinking the two fonts.conf files 
> together, something's incompatible at a lower layer.

Agree. 

> 
> I'm going to check that  make bigide  works, but apart from 
> that I think 
> it needs the involvement of somebody with more SPARC/Solaris 
> experience 
> than I've got, e.g. whoever was asking about the availability 
> of a port 
> on StackOverflow a few months ago.
> 

Please try above. You're almost there.

> It's not so much that I can't afford to put much more time into this 
> one, but that to have something manageable it needs to be 
> predictable, 
> i.e. while installing a sequence of SFW packages is OK in 
> principle it's 
> not going to benefit Lazarus if that breaks things, or if the result 
> still needs an indeterminate amount of tweaking before it works.
> 
> > One positive thing that I can report is that  lazbuild 
> --help  returns
> > sensible output, even using the default (GNU?) linker.
> 

The error came up when initialising the gtk+ engine...

> -- 
> Mark Morgan Lloyd
> markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
> 
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