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FW: Error running freeciv on dxwin32
- To: "Cygwin-Xfree at Sourceware dot Cygnus. Com" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: FW: Error running freeciv on dxwin32
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:29:44 -0400
> gdkfont.c is in glib. It's failing an assertion that the font name it
> was passed was not NULL. It is NULL because the given font that it
> needs is missing.
>
Which font it needs. Why it does not use the default if the
given font is not available? This seems to be a bad programming
issue in freeciv, then an X-server issue. A good X/MOTIF application
should never crash, if needed font is not available, instead it should
return warning then use whatever "default font" on X-server is available.
Suhaib
> No argument that Freeciv should probably give a better error message
> before exiting.
>
> >
> > >
> > > The X server is still running - it has not been killed or
> shutdown. The
> > > freeciv client stops at this point. I have attempted to install
> > > all of the
> > > fonts in xfree86-fonts.tar, but the X server doesn't seem to
> see them. My
> > > impression is that the dxwin32 will not work with compressed
> > > fonts (is this
> >
> > Yes, because it is compiled with MSVC and cannot use Unices
> type compressed
> > fonts.
> >
> >
> > > true?). If I need to install more fonts, how do I go about
> doing that?
> > > I've been playing around with the fonts.alias and fonts.dir files and
> > > decompressing various fonts, but I'm having no luck.
> > >
> > >
> >
>