On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 10:11:46 +0100
Björn Höfling wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:05:54 +0100
> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > Perhaps we should patch this ‘fontpath.c’, with ‘substitute*’, so
> > that it refers to libfontconfig.so by its absolute file name?
>
> We do that for icedtea (i.e. OpenJD
On Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:05:54 +0100
Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Fabien SK skribis:
>
> > Regarding Java, I think (but I'm not sure) that it's loaded by
> > "libawt_xawt.so". In fontpath.c [1], there is a dlopen of
> > libfontconfig. But if I do a "ldd" on the shared library itself, it
> >
Hi,
Fabien SK skribis:
> Regarding Java, I think (but I'm not sure) that it's loaded by
> "libawt_xawt.so". In fontpath.c [1], there is a dlopen of
> libfontconfig. But if I do a "ldd" on the shared library itself, it
> looks like it does not depend on libfontconfig.so.
> [1]
> https://github.co
I faced the issue when running josm (downloaded from
josm.openstreetmap.de, not the guix package). Using "strace" showed me
that it failed because it cannot load "libfontconfig.so" (it tries in
several directories). If I add the directory of libfontconfig.so to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, then it starts.
I realized I forgot to submit a bug report for this after I posted on
help-guix a while back, and looks like it's still an issue, so... I get
a null pointer exception when attempting to run any Java application
that uses fonts. I've attached an example of the error output I get,
and you can fin
