Re: [E-devel] evas textblock broken without linebreak

[David S. <on...@gm...>]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:01:02 +1000 David Seikel <on...@gm...>
wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:34:21 +1000 David Seikel <on...@gm...>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:21:16 +0200 Vincent Torri
> > <vin...@gm...> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:18 AM, David Seikel <on...@gm...>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Still wondering why the autofoo of so much of the current alpha
> > > > wants to include Exotic.h when it's not been built.  Hard for me
> > > > to debug that at the moment.  I just patch it out for now.
> > > 
> > > autofoo do not include anything. Exotic is not installed on my
> > > system and everything compile flawlessly
> > > 
> > > you seem to have an error wrt Exotic. So paste it.
> > 
> > Like I said, I'll do a full report tomorrow.  From memory though, a
> > few of the libraries would just complain that they could not include
> > Exotic.h.  Some how or another, the parts of the build system that
> > should have turned off the inclusion of Exotic.h failed to do so in
> > it's absence on the embedded x486 OS I build from scratch.
> > 
> > Today I just wanted to get the damn thing to compile, so I patched
> > out Exotic.h inclusions, and all that other stuff that seemed to be
> > failing it's autodetection.  Tomorrow I'll investigate more
> > thoroughly, and either make a proper report if I can't figure it
> > out, or fix what's broken if I can.
> > 
> > Right now, I need sleep.
> 
> Never mind, I had forgotten something in the earlier part of the build
> that I needed to disable that was screwing with pkg-config.  Ignore
> all the "autofoo is detecting stuff that is not there" stuff, that's
> all working now.
> 
> Still not sure why the one running on the embedded hardware is not
> showing the textblocks, but I only just got the thing to compile
> properly with the alpha tarballs.  Still need to investigate that.  It
> shows textblocks fine on my desktop.

Turns out that I needed fontconfig after all, and to actually put the
font used by the textblock where fontconfig can find it.

All working good now with the latest alpha tarballs.

One of these days I'll put my OS + EFL build scripts in SVN.  I'd have
to cut the embedded app out first, and make it a bit more general
purpose.  Though perhaps just cut it down to an example app.

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