[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 908] Xserver on Darwin cannot open font in custom directory

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------- Additional Comments From roland.mainz at nrubsig.org  2004-07-21 17:17 -------
Torrey T. Lyons wrote:
> I don't have any good ideas here. The only Mac OS X specific code in font 
> support is Freetype's ftmac. It 
> would be interesting to debug and see what error exactly is causing the open 
> to fail.

Does MacOSX have something like Solaris's "truss" or "strace" ?

My first bet would be that something is wrong with the encodings support (e.g.
the stuff in the *.enc files and encodings.dir). While doing tests with Xprt I
can see that fonts with buildin encodings (*iso8859-1) are downloaded properly
but TrueType fonts with the "jisx0201.1976-0" encoding cannot be opened.
Unfortunately the damn font code in xc/lib/fonts/ doesn't print any errors in
such cases to something like "truss" is required... ;-(

BTW: All the dirs listed above exist on "lamancha" and should be readable by
everyone...       
  
  
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