Martin Costabel wrote: > Jonathan Levi, M.D. wrote: >> >> At 6:13 PM -0500 2/8/09, Alexander Hansen wrote: >>> [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> <snip> >>> >>> Can we please just get a transcript of the output of "fontforge >>> --version" from your system? >>> >>> On my system I get: >>> >>> $ fontforge --version >>> Copyright (c) 2000-2008 by George Williams. >>> Executable based on sources from 16:11 GMT 24-Dec-2008-ML. >>> Library based on sources from 16:11 GMT 24-Dec-2008. >>> fontforge 20081224 >>> libfontforge 20081224-ML >>> >>> -- >> >> Here it is. I don't know what the osascript problems in the middle >> are about. -- Jonathan >> >> Copyright (c) 2000-2008 by George Williams. >> Executable based on sources from 16:11 GMT 24-Dec-2008-ML. >> Library based on sources from 16:11 GMT 24-Dec-2008. >> 2009-02-08 22:10:59.090 osascript[19963] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): >> Object 0x3239c0 of class NSPathStore2 autoreleased with no pool in >> place - just leaking > > Phew! Thanks, Alex, for helping to pull the forceps :-) > > Now that we know that it is fontforge that produces this garbage > output, we can focus on the way how it starts up and reacts on the > --version flag. Looking at the sources, I see that this is rather > complicated, and there is no immediate and obvious answer. > > Two points to check, however: > > In principle, and this is what happens for me, "fontforge -- version" > should *not* try to start X11, which it seems to do in your case. So > far, I have no idea why this could be. Is the result different if you > have X11 running when you do "fontforge --version" compared to when it > is not running? > > Second thing to check: Other people who were seeing the > "osacript[]...leaking" error messages tracked it down to some > 3rd-party scripting addition (in one case related to a logitech mouse) > sitting in > /Library/ScriptingAdditions/ or ~/Library/ScriptingAdditions/. Do you > have anything in one of these 2 directories? > On my 10.4 setup, when I run "fontforge --version", X11.app starts up. I don't get anything other than the ordinary version information, though. On 10.5, interestingly enough, X11.app doesn't start.
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