From: Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Bug in fontconfig postinstall script: spaces in *.ttf
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 19:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <79C8FF54-DAB7-42AB-A8DA-76F9BC318FE8@etr-usa.com> (raw)
The zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh postinstall script links all *.ttf fonts in $(cygpath -W)/Fonts that contain “Microsoft Corp” into /usr/share/fonts/microsoft. This script creates broken links when such a font contains a space in its filename, as happens with SketchFlow\ Print.ttf on my system.
This error happens silently, but on the next run of setup.exe, you get a postinstall script error resulting from Cygwin’s refusal to chase an infinite link from Print.ttf to Print.ttf. You also get a broken link to SketchFlow, but since it is not a tail-chaser, it doesn’t trigger the error.
The trivial fix for this is left as an exercise to the packager. :)
Incidentally, that font has a web page:
http://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/sneak-preview-sketchflow-print
Kind of an interesting read.
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