installing kaffe

[George Wu]

On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, dog wrote:

> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 18:06:34 +0100
> From: dog <dog at dog.net.uk>
> Reply-To: kaffe at kaffe.org
> To: kaffe at soi.city.ac.uk
> Subject: installing kaffe
> 
> i have been having some problems installing kaffe 0.90 on linux
> (debian, kernel version 2.0.30, i586). symptoms are:
> 
> ...
> 
> 2. biss awt crashes out with a NullPointerException:
>    java.lang.NullPointerException
>            at java/awt/Font.initializeFont(105)
>            at java/awt/Font.<init>(119)
>            at biss/PackageProperties.getFont(158)
>            at biss/awt/Awt.initFonts(318)
>            at biss/awt/Awt.<clinit>(153)
>    presumably something to do with the fact that i don't have sun fonts
>    on my machine? tried making all the fonts in fonts.properties match
>    existing fonts on the system but to no avail.
> 
  I have exactly the same problem with 0.90 on NEXTSTEP 3.2 and I tried
removing "fonts.properties" and still got the same problem.  Does anyone
know what goes on in Font.initializeFont() ?

  George

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