Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/01/18/05:58:51
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 10/01/2010 21:37, Dave Korn wrote:
>> BTW I'm going to ship AWT with the next GCJ, if that's of any interest to
>> anyone. It builds and appears to be passing the mauve testsuite, so
>> that's probably worth chucking over the wall and letting people start
>> playing with.
>
> Good idea, but a heads-up; with Classpath, I found that a patch was
> necessary to fix Awt fonts, and Swing which uses them extensively:
>
> http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cygwin-ports/ports/trunk/java/classpath/0.98-awt.patch
Thanks! I see it's mostly renaming font paths. Hmm, could we do that by
supplying a package full of symlinks at the paths classpath expects, rather
than altering the sources? Also, what's the isLogicalFontName change for?
> BTW, gjavah and the other tools are going to work in the next release,
> right?
I have to admit the only answer to that is "it depends". The locale problem
has gone away in 4.5, to be replaced by a crash... :-(
> Attached.
Ta, I'll work them into the next release.
>> Argh, and thank you for pointing that out. It appears that I lost all the
>> x perms on all the scripts in my last build, probably caused by my using
>> win32 editors (followed by d2u) when adjusting them. I've spotted that
>> and fixed it manually a few times but I'd better script it to avoid
>> future accidents; it'd be an easy thing to add to the cygport.
>
> Append their basenames to SRC_URI and dobin in src_install.
Thanks!
cheers,
DaveK
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