From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 118961 invoked by alias); 11 Sep 2015 21:36:07 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 118953 invoked by uid 89); 11 Sep 2015 21:36:07 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock01.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock01.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.241) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 21:36:06 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id t8BLa4VQ025094 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 17:36:04 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (cpe-67-249-176-138.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.176.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id t8BLa3Br010070 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 17:36:04 -0400 Subject: Re: Fonts reorganization and additions To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1441962346.9784.34.camel@cygwin.com> <55F2B932.8060101@gmail.com> <55F30150.8020906@cornell.edu> <1441989600.15240.4.camel@cygwin.com> <55F327B4.40208@cornell.edu> <1442001550.9548.6.camel@cygwin.com> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <55F34943.8010101@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 21:36:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1442001550.9548.6.camel@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-09/txt/msg00202.txt.bz2 On 9/11/2015 3:59 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 15:12 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >> I was referring to the fact that for terminus-fonts we see > >> 2015-09-10 19:57 0 etc/X11/ >> 2015-09-10 19:57 0 etc/X11/fontpath.d/ >> 2015-09-10 19:57 0 etc/X11/fontpath.d/terminus:unscaled -> /usr/share/fonts/terminus >> >> whereas for xorg-x11-fonts-dpi75 we see only >> >> 2015-09-10 20:44 0 etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 -> /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi >> >> and similarly for the other xorg-x11-fonts-* packages. >> >> I interpreted this as meaning that /etc/X11/fontpath.d wouldn't get created, but >> maybe I was wrong. > > Generally, the leading directories aren't required, setup should be > creating all parent directories regardless. > >> In any case, it apparently didn't get created for the OP, and I had the same >> experience. On the other hand, it gets created when I manually unpack the >> tarball, so I don't know what's going on. > > If you remove your /etc/X11/fontpath.d and just (re)install > xorg-x11-fonts-Type1, does this occur? (It shouldn't.) No, it doesn't. So your guess below is probably correct. > The first thing that should be checked is if the code in setup which > allows it to unpack files with "illegal" characters in Windows also > makes sure to create parent directories. Based on these reports my > *guess* is it doesn't but I haven't looked yet. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple