From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16452 invoked by alias); 25 Jun 2008 00:32:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 16362 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Jun 2008 00:32:20 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp.prospeed.net (HELO mail.prospeed.net) (64.25.80.140) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:31:53 +0000 Received: from [192.168.124.128] (lhall.prospeed.net [64.25.83.123]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.prospeed.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5172128017331 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:31:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <486191F7.7010006@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:39:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Lightning/0.8 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Running fontforge.exe does nothing References: <01f201c8d657$ba3407d0$0401a8c0@SYS3> In-Reply-To: <01f201c8d657$ba3407d0$0401a8c0@SYS3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00520.txt.bz2 David Spector wrote: > Dave and Ralph, > > Thanks for your quick responses and help. > > That did it. I can now run fontforge. Thanks again! > > (Surely cygwin packaging could have been done similar to the Make model > so a single "install the latest fontforge" command would automatically > install cygwin, x windows, and all necessary libraries, with nothing > unnecesary? It seems weird to have to spend hours of realtime to get the > advice necessary to get an ordinary program running, not to mention > having to use two different diagnostic tools, cygcheck and the module > search page.) Cygwin packaging is "done similar to the Make model" in that packages know what their dependencies are and will automatically add those to the list of packages to install. I'm not sure where you got "fontforge" but it's not part of what's distributed with Cygwin. If you visited and searched for it, this would be evident to you. The fact that some external source for 'fontforge' does not magically do what you want with 'setup.exe' should not be that surprising to you, at least once you armed with the knowledge of what you're doing. As for the using both and 'cygcheck', once you have 'cygcheck', you don't need . But the latter is nice when you don't have the former. And actually, 'cygcheck -p' just wraps the web functionality into a convenient command-line tool. So there's really nothing weird about it. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/