[sldev] Also first time build...getting "Missing Glyph Info"

[Robin Cornelius]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:50 AM, R. Douglas Barbieri <dooglio at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to the SL open source thing, and I am trying to run a trunk
> build on my AMD64 ubuntu linux box.
>
> I managed to get everything to build as standalone using the cmake
> system, and when i try to run, I get this:
>
> 2008-09-22T08:43:48Z llrender/llfontgl.cpp(810) : error
> 2008-09-22T08:43:48Z ERROR: render: Missing Glyph Info
>
> I've also built the client on Win32, as well as i386 ubuntu and get
> the same error, so I know it must be something I'm doing wrong. I've
> searched Google and the SL wiki but to no avail. Any help would be
> appreciated, of course. :-)


This is an indication that the viewer could not find the required fonts.

Overlay the libs package that is associated with the version you are
using (it only contains the fonts now) by which i mean, download the
libs package which is either listed on the source download page OR in
docs/asset_urls.txt then unpack this on top of your source tree. You
may need to force a rebuild as i'm not 100% sure what the packaging
scripts do and they may copy the font files if present to a staging
area.

Another solution is to edit the app_settings.xml and change the 3 font
files listed in there to 3 fonts you do have on your system (you would
want to do this if you want to use only free components) and the
following font choice may not be optimal anyway.


Index: ./indra/newview/app_settings/settings.xml
===================================================================
--- ./indra/newview/app_settings/settings.xml   (revision 374)
+++ ./indra/newview/app_settings/settings.xml   (working copy)
@@ -3464,7 +3464,7 @@
       <key>Type</key>
       <string>String</string>
       <key>Value</key>
-      <string>profontwindows.ttf</string>
+      <string>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf</string>
     </map>
     <key>FontSansSerif</key>
     <map>
@@ -3475,7 +3475,7 @@
       <key>Type</key>
       <string>String</string>
       <key>Value</key>
-      <string>MtBkLfRg.ttf</string>
+      <string>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf</string>
     </map>
     <key>FontSansSerifBold</key>
     <map>
@@ -3486,7 +3486,7 @@
       <key>Type</key>
       <string>String</string>
       <key>Value</key>
-      <string>MtBdLfRg.ttf</string>
+      <string>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf</string>
     </map>
     <key>FontSansSerifFallback</key>
     <map>

For example

Robin