Font issues with Crosscompiled OpenJDK on PPC32

Question

I am upgrading from OpenJDK-6 to OpenJDK-8 on an embedded platform and have problems with the fonts. We're using the DejaVu fonts. I have created a suitable fontconfig.properties file in the jre/lib directory, and when I list the fonts with java i get the list as follows:

DejaVu Sans
DejaVu Sans Condensed
DejaVu Sans Light
DejaVu Sans Mono
DejaVu Serif
DejaVu Serif Condensed
Dialog
DialogInput
Monospaced
SansSerif
Serif

The application in question is an AWT application - because it is running under PPC32 using the Zero JVM (haven't installed JamVM yet), but shows artefacts when rendering the fonts on the screen.

The issue looks like it is changing the background as well... The embedded system is running x11 7.7, with freetype, fontconfig, dejavu fonts.

How can I get the fonts to render correctly inside Java? I tried XFD, and that doesn't show any artefacts at all...

fontconfig.properties:

#

# Version

version=1

# Component Font Mappings

serif.plain.latin-1=DejaVu Serif
serif.bold.latin-1=DejaVu Serif Bold
serif.italic.latin-1=DejaVu Serif Oblique
serif.bolditalic.latin-1=DejaVu Serif Bold Oblique
sansserif.plain.latin-1=DejaVu Sans
sansserif.bold.latin-1=DejaVu Sans Bold
sansserif.italic.latin-1=DejaVu Sans Oblique
sansserif.bolditalic.latin-1=DejaVu Sans Bold Oblique
monospaced.plain.latin-1=DejaVu Sans Mono
monospaced.bold.latin-1=DejaVu Sans Mono Bold
monospaced.italic.latin-1=DejaVu Sans Mono Oblique
monospaced.bolditalic.latin-1=DejaVu Sans Mono Bold Oblique
dialog.plain.latin-1=DejaVu Sans
dialog.bold.latin-1=DejaVu Sans Bold
dialog.italic.latin-1=DejaVu Sans Oblique
dialog.bolditalic.latin-1=DejaVu Sans Bold Oblique
dialoginput.plain.latin-1=DejaVu Sans Mono
dialoginput.bold.latin-1=DejaVu Sans Mono Bold
dialoginput.italic.latin-1=DejaVu Sans Mono Oblique
dialoginput.bolditalic.latin-1=DejaVu Sans Mono Bold Oblique

#
# Search Sequences

sequence.allfonts=latin-1

# Font File Names

filename.DejaVu_Sans=/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/DejaVuSans.ttf
filename.DejaVu_Sans_Bold=/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
filename.DejaVu_Sans_Oblique=/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/DejaVuSans-    Oblique.ttf
filename.DejaVu_Sans_Bold_Oblique=/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/DejaVuSans-    BoldOblique.ttf

filename.DejaVu_Sans_Mono=/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/DejaVuSansMono.ttf
filename.DejaVu_Sans_Mono_Bold=/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/DejaVuSansMono-    Bold.ttf
filename.DejaVu_Sans_Mono_Oblique=/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf
filename.DejaVu_Sans_Mono_Bold_Oblique=/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf

filename.DejaVu_Serif=/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/DejaVuSerif.ttf
filename.DejaVu_Serif_Bold=/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf
filename.DejaVu_Serif_Oblique=/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/DejaVuSerif-    Oblique.ttf
filename.DejaVu_Serif_Bold_Oblique=/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/DejaVuSerif-    BoldOblique.ttf


# AWT X11 font paths
awtfontpath.latin-1=/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/

Font directories:

ls /usr/share/fonts/ -lR
/usr/share/fonts/:
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root            62 Oct 30 21:59 X11
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             2 Oct 30 21:59 fonts.dir
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             2 Oct 30 21:59 fonts.scale

/usr/share/fonts/X11:
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           741 Oct 30 21:50 TTF
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             2 Oct 30 21:59 fonts.dir
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             2 Oct 30 21:59 fonts.scale

/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF:
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        672300 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        611212 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        345208 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSans-ExtraLight.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        611556 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        720012 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSans.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        631992 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        580168 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        576004 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        643852 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        313856 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        235848 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        241972 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        333636 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSansMono.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        341072 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        332036 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        338776 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        363200 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSerif.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        316440 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSerifCondensed-Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        331128 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSerifCondensed-BoldItalic.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        338140 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSerifCondensed-Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        330012 Oct 30 21:50 DejaVuSerifCondensed.ttf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         43905 Oct 30 21:59 fonts.dir
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         43905 Oct 30 21:59 fonts.scale

XLSFONTS:

-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
6x13
cursor
fixed

I'm sure I'm missing something, but haven't been able to find what...