From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 00:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <561465AE.1080700@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOC2fq-Dixr8zSE2yYPc5H2br4n7oxzAbz3hJAYN3ewMOc4dSA@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/6/2015 7:40 PM, Michael Enright wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
>>
>> But there is no need to guess about this, it's documented in the fontpath.d
>> section of the Xserver man page [1]
>>
>> [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man1/Xserver.1.html#lbAN
>>
>
> I still have questions.
>
> Good old setup_x86 fortuitously gave me the chance to see an error
> message involving one of these symlinks. I reviewed the setup log and
> read that apparently such a symlink was created as follows:
> io_stream:mklink
> (cygfile:///etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 ->
> cygfile:///usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi)
> But there is no /etc/X11/fontpath.d directory on the system.
>
> The man page doesn't say in explicit procedural terms what the end
> user has to do to make fontpath.d exist and it doesn't seem to get
> created by setup.
That's because of the setup bug that I mentioned in
https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-10/msg00065.html; the directory
will get created by setup once the fixed version of setup is released.
Ken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-07 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-06 14:42 kuaf
2015-10-06 15:05 ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-06 15:26 ` Ken Brown
2015-10-06 15:06 ` Ken Brown
2015-10-06 16:12 ` kuaf
2015-10-06 16:43 ` Michael Enright
2015-10-06 16:55 ` Ken Brown
2015-10-06 18:10 ` Jon Turney
2015-10-06 23:40 ` Michael Enright
2015-10-07 0:05 ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-07 0:22 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2015-10-12 23:49 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
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