I periodically get asked about problems running VisualWorks on
Debian and/or Ubuntu. I got a summary from one of our engineers
last night:
The two issues are:
- locale initialization failure running 32-bit VW on 64-bit
system
- Font lookup failure
Jeff Hallman
reports that the locale issue has been fixed by upgrading his 64
bit Ubuntu installation to the latest stable release. There isn't
anything we can do about this problem internally, it's a problem
with glibc and xlib not seeing the same available locales.
I just completed a
bug
report for the font lookup failure. I think that the problem
needs to be fixed at the X server level, but the 'xset fp rehash'
thing is still a viable workaround.
That last paragraph indicates that you should add that line - xset fp rehash - to your linux startup script for VW.
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