From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 35132 invoked by alias); 7 Oct 2015 00:22:11 -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 35119 invoked by uid 89); 7 Oct 2015 00:22:10 -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: limerock03.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock03.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock03.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.243) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 00:22:09 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock03.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id t970M7Is008543 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 20:22:07 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.5] (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 t970M6B4031293 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 20:22:07 -0400 Subject: Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5613FCEB.30603@cornell.edu> <56140E93.6060109@dronecode.org.uk> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <561465AE.1080700@cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 00:22:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00079.txt.bz2 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 -- 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