Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] FontConfig fails when optional system library is missing

2011-07-21 Thread Steve Poole
On 19/07/11 21:09, Mario Torre wrote: Il giorno mar, 19/07/2011 alle 21.12 +0200, Roman Kennke ha scritto: IIRC, libfontconfig is also fairly standalone and portable, so when it's not there, it shouldn't be too hard to compile it. A while ago I contemplated and started to implement fontconfig i

Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] FontConfig fails when optional system library is missing

2011-07-19 Thread Mario Torre
Il giorno mar, 19/07/2011 alle 21.12 +0200, Roman Kennke ha scritto: > IIRC, libfontconfig is also fairly standalone and portable, so when it's > not there, it shouldn't be too hard to compile it. > > A while ago I contemplated and started to implement fontconfig in pure > Java, which is not rocke

Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] FontConfig fails when optional system library is missing

2011-07-19 Thread Roman Kennke
IIRC, libfontconfig is also fairly standalone and portable, so when it's not there, it shouldn't be too hard to compile it. A while ago I contemplated and started to implement fontconfig in pure Java, which is not rocket science either, but then lost interest or time or both. Cheers, Roman Am D

Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] FontConfig fails when optional system library is missing

2011-07-19 Thread Phil Race
PPS SFAIK all JDK7 supported configs have libfontconfig so I've in fact contemplated for JDk 8 making libfontconfig a compile time dependency. Would that be a major problem ? We really are that dependent on it now, and its such an integral part of the way Gnome and KDE desktops work we shoul

Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] FontConfig fails when optional system library is missing

2011-07-19 Thread Phil Race
PS .. are you running a pure openjdk build or are you running a build which includes the proprietary Lucida fonts. Do you have a fontconfig.properties which is customised for AIX ? If you eliminate both of those, as would be the typical Linux OpenJDK case, I think it quite likely that without li

Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] FontConfig fails when optional system library is missing

2011-07-18 Thread Phil Race
On 7/18/11 4:13 PM, Steve Poole wrote: On 18/07/11 23:14, Phil Race wrote: Ah you said it was AIX, not Linux. Still, it should have that library installed even if the de-ref is fixed. Not on AIX - its completely optional - and as far we can tell (other than this particular problem) nothing e

Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] FontConfig fails when optional system library is missing

2011-07-18 Thread Steve Poole
On 18/07/11 23:14, Phil Race wrote: Ah you said it was AIX, not Linux. Still, it should have that library installed even if the de-ref is fixed. Not on AIX - its completely optional - and as far we can tell (other than this particular problem) nothing else bad happens.Having said that I