[Scribus] Solaris 10 - getting really close

[Rainer Heilke]

Adam Stein wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 18:08, Rainer Heilke wrote:
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>>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.
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>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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Hmm. That's a little scary, but I may be able to muck around with it...

Rainer