On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 14:23 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: > All this is worth it, right? I'm sure it's gorgeous, but we seem > to have thrown portability right out the window here. OSX/PPC v10.4, > OSX/x86 v10.6, and Solaris 10 are all dead in the water here.
The software in question is all perfectly portable, I think you are more shooting yourself in the foot by eschewing package management. The stack is complex to build, but that doesn't make it non-portable. The OS X rendering bug comes close to being a portability problem, unfortunately you're suffering on the front lines of our relative inexperience with building these libraries on OS X. As John can attest to.. the code does work on OS X, but there isn't anyone here who is a real expert as to what recipe you need to build the pieces outside of Fink. Since I've not been able to find any other similar bug reports for other cairo apps on OS X, I'm 99.9% sure there is "something" I've done wrong in the rendering code which just happens not to be causing a problem with the freetype + fontconfig / Linux back-end. I'd love to get that fixed for Pango + cairo which uses OS X native text rendering, but a simple work-around ought to be building the suite in a similar configuration to Linux - with non-native text rendering. Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user