[Scribus] Solaris 10 - getting really close

[Adam Stein]

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 18:08, Rainer Heilke wrote:
> Unfortunately, Scribus core dumps with a Segmentation Fault on start-up. 
> >From watching the splash screen, this seems to happen when searching for 
> fonts. Running freetype-config gives back 9.7.3, which seems a little 
> odd, but maybe that's what it is supposed to say? I used the 2.1.9 
> package from sunfreeware.com. Building freetype-2.1.9 directly works, 
> but gives a pile of "dereferencing type-punned pointer" errors (and yes, 
> that's spelled correctly--what is "type-punned"?). It did build 
> (freetype-config gave the same version number). I then removed the 
> Scribus directory, slurped down the CVS tree, and rebuilt Scribus. On 
> start-up, it crashed at exactly the same point.

The last time I tried Scribus on Solaris it crashed at the same point. 
This was on Solaris 8.  FreeType was crashing when trying to read one of
the fonts in /usr/openwin/...  I modified the font path in xset until it
didn't crash (i.e. take out directories).  Turns out that I took out the
directory containing the offending point just have Scribus tell me it
didn't have any PS fonts.  In effect, I never got Scribus working on
Solaris.  I remember reading about other people needing to go back to
older versions of FreeType.  You could try older versions (before
v2.1.9).  Another thing I didn't try but you could is to NOT use any of
the Openwin fonts but to download a collection that is known to work and
see if FreeType can work with that.
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Adam Stein @ Xerox Corporation       Email: adam at scan.mc.xerox.com

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