Re: Lacking icons etc: GNUstep/Solaris

[Adam Fedor]

On Aug 24, 2004, at 12:49 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Graham J Lee wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to set up GNUstep on Solaris 7[*] on an Ultra 5.  All of 
> > core has installed properly (or at least without error), gdomap is 
> > launched at boot time and gdnc/gpbs are launched from my BASH 
> > .profile after sourcing GNUstep.sh.  I've opted for the xlib backend; 
> > I tried using art but when I openapp'ed applications they failed with 
> > "No fonts found!"
>
> You seem to be missing the nfont package for the art backend. Sorry I 
> cannot find the link to this at the moment.
>
> > With the xlib backend, programs launch but none of the icons, arrows, 
> > button graphics etc. are displayed.  The programs log messages of the 
> > following type:
> > --8<--
> > 2004-08-24 14:11:30.000 EasyDiff[12270] NSImage: 
> > compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation: failed due to 
> > NSInternalInconsistencyException: Cannot find stored representation
> > --8<--
>
> This problem should be independent of the backend you use, as it seems 
> to happen in the functionrepd_for_rep() in the gui file NSImage.m. And 
> I don't have the slightest glue, why this may be failing for you. You 
> may want to add some debug code in that functions and report the 
> result of that.

It's possible there was an error reading in  the images. That seems the 
most reasonable cause. On Solaris there is a libtiff in 
/usr/openwin/lib which may get mixed up with the libtiff you installed. 
Make sure /usr/openwin/lib is after the location of your libtiff in 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH