Re: [ft-devel] Bug on PowerPC: Illegal Intruction in FT_Get_Name_Index

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

>
> > Well, about a year ago, we/you have had problems when building X11
> > that mkfontscale crashes while processing Type1 fonts with an
> > illegal instruction on powerpc.  This was described several times in
> > the archives, but I cannot find a bugfix for that problem.
>
> Unfortunately, nothing has changed.  We don't use a powerpc at all.

One can try to reproduce it on SourceForge.net compile farm.  If
you are active on sf.net, you can simply ssh cf.sf.net and choose
a machine to work on.  They have a couple of PPCs.


--behdad
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