[tlbuild] xetex on sparc-solaris dumps core using opentype fonts

Vladimir Volovich vvv at vsu.ru
Fri Jun 17 23:10:16 CEST 2011


"KB" == Karl Berry writes:

 KB> One more thing: the TL configure tests in icu did correctly detect
 KB> that the platform was BigEndian.  So whatever is happening to make
 KB> LESwaps.h be active is presumably intentional.  Nothing TL-specific
 KB> that would affect this is jumping out at me.

apparently "LE" in "LESwaps.h" stands for LayoutEngine rather than
LittleEndian, so it is intended to be used on BigEndian machines.

(see comment in that file:
 * \brief C++ API: Endian independent access to data for LayoutEngine
)

Best,
v.


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