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

[George N. White III]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Vladimir Volovich <vvv at vsu.ru> wrote:

> "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.

 $ tlmgr show xetex.sparc-solaris
package:     xetex.sparc-solaris
category:    TLCore
shortdesc:   sparc-solaris files of xetex
installed:   Yes
revision:    23065

This handles my simple test.  Thanks.



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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
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