Adam Stein wrote: >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. > > Hmm. That's a little scary, but I may be able to muck around with it...
Rainer
