Re: [Gnash] configure doesn't find libxft

[Rob Savoye]

Jan Schneider wrote:

> Yup, I didn't event test it. It compiled fine.

  I thought about removing the warning so as to not confuse people, but 
wound up leaving it in since pretty soon it'll be required when the FLTK 
support is done.

> I had to run ldconfig manually after make install, maybe this should be 
> added to the Makefile. checkinstall didn't work at all for some reason, 
> but I didn't investigate it further.

  Was this because /usr/local/lib wasn't in /etc/ld.so.conf ? That 
would only effect a source build (not a released package), but I thought 
I covered this in the manual. :-)

> The first impression is really nice given the early state of the 
> software, though the fonts seem to be a bit too fuzzy. Looks like an 
> additional blur effect on antialiased fonts. Beside that, not all movies 

  The font support in Gnash needs work... You can try adjusting the LOD 
Bias (the -m option) which helps with the fuzziness of small fonts. This 
has always been a problem for years in GameSWF, and Gnash inherited the 
same issues. Redoing the font support in Gnash would be a great project 
for somebody that understands font techniques.

> are working, as expected, but one movie causes to suck up all CPU, even 
> after I closed the page. The movie in question is 
> http://www.ammma.de/home/media/learnweb.swf.

  It's trying to load an external movie clip, which isn't supported 
yet. It does hit my CPU pretty hard, but not after I close the movie. 
Rather than fix the CPU problem now, I'd rather stall till external 
loading of movie clips is supported.

        - rob -