167477 - RFE: Set --enable-ctl on some seamonkey-ports tinderboxen

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools Graveyard :: Tinderbox, enhancement)

Description

[Roland Mainz]

RFE: Enable the CTL (Complex Text Layout) code on some ports tinderboxen to test
it on a wider range of platforms (currently only "speedracer"
(Solaris/SPARC/gcc) builds with --enable-ctl) as preparation to enable it by
default in the near future...
In theory the code should work on the platforms requested below...

Requested machines:
- "cement" (IRIX 6.5)
- "palermo" (HP-UX)
- "planetoid" (MacOSX/Darwin)
- "nebiros" (Solaris/SPARC/Sun Workshop)

Comment 1

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

cement & nebiros have been udpated.  What happens if --enable-ctl is used on
other platforms such as AIX or BeOS? 

Comment 2

[Roland Mainz]

Christopher Seawood wrote:
> cement & nebiros have been udpated. 

Thanks!

> What happens if --enable-ctl is used on
> other platforms such as AIX or BeOS?

AFAIK it should work on them, too... but first I was interested how/if the code
really works on the platforms listed above before starting to enable it on more
tinderboxen...

Comment 3

[Jim Dunn]

adding martin & salmi (to do the hp-ux palermo addition)
and phil (to do the aix stuff)...

roland how do we "test" to make sure ctl is working properly on these platforms?
url?

thanks

Comment 4

[Darin Fisher]

planetoid has been updated.

Comment 5

[Salim Virji]

palermo has been successfully updated.

Comment 6

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

.

Comment 7

[Roland Mainz]

Jim Dunn wrote:
> roland how do we "test" to make sure ctl is working properly on these 
> platforms? url?

I guess Prabhat/Katakai can explain that better...
... but I can try it myself, too:
In theory you simply install Indic fonts (the BBC page has a download for
windows; X11 fonts can be provided on demand), go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/
and check if the hindi text is rendered correctly (the problem in real life is
that you need someone who can read hindi... I guess the easiest way is to attach
screenshots here and let prabhat verify them...).

Comment 8

[Prabhat Hegde]

I will try to create a test URL for verification purposes.

prabhat

Comment 9

[Roland Mainz]

Prabhat Hegde wrote:
> I will try to create a test URL for verification purposes.

rbs created a nice test page for MathML - a table where the left entries show an
image "how it should look like corretly" and the right side "how the browser
actually renders it" (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/texvsmml.xml -
see attachment 40252 [details] for a screenshot (from a very very old mozilla build)) -
what about creating the same for CTL ?

Comment 10

[Philip K. Warren]

I can turn on --enable-ctl for the AIX tinderbox as soon as the fix for Bug
168531 is checked in.