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RE: fonts problem - was RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Tes t 1
- To: Cygwin-Xfree <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: fonts problem - was RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Tes t 1
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:34:42 -0500
> make[4]: *** No rule to make target
> `../../exports/bin/mkfontdir.exe', needed by
> `all'.
> ....
> ....
> make[4]: *** No rule to make target
> `../../exports/bin/bdftopcf.exe', needed by
> `all'.
>
> These programs compiled OK but were not copied to the
> /xc/exports/bin directory for some reason.
>
> To get around this I did the following:
>
> 1. Copy mkdfontdir.exe and bdftopcf.exe to /xc/exports/bin
> 2. cd to /xc/fonts
> 3. make clean
just a note: if you do a "make clean", then it is good to do:
make Makefile
make depend
make
This should build correct dependencies and symbolic links.
> 4. cd to /xc
> 5. make
> 6. make install
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Wright [mailto:kevin@wright.org]
> Sent: Thursday, 22 March 2001 6:21 AM
> To: Cygwin-Xfree
> Subject: fonts problem - was RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow
> Framebuffer Test
> 1
>
>
> Suhaib,
>
> you wrote:
> >
> > The error "fixed" means your fonts/misc/fixed is corrupted or
> > X is unable to find.
>
> Thanks for your reply. I did an archive search and found
> some references to the fixed font problem. As a result,
> I was able to use my xfree86 build again by taking
> xfree86-4.0-fonts.tar.bz2 and installing it in the
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory.
>
> What I don't understand is why I don't have all the
> correct fonts from the cvs archive of xfree86? Does
> that mean that my build did not complete correctly or
> that the cvs archive doesn't have all the fonts needed?
>
> When I compare the fonts from my build with the ones from
> xfree86-4.0-fonts.tar.bz2, I see the following:
>
> WORKING NOT WORKING
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> $ du -h fonts $ du -h fonts.orig
> 702k fonts/100dpi 139k fonts.orig/100dpi
> 624k fonts/75dpi 138k fonts.orig/75dpi
> 1.0k fonts/CID 1.0k fonts.orig/CID
> 217k fonts/cyrillic 53k fonts.orig/cyrillic
> 219k fonts/encodings/large 118k fonts.orig/encodings/large
> 277k fonts/encodings 167k fonts.orig/encodings
> 508k fonts/latin2/100dpi 115k fonts.orig/latin2/100dpi
> 460k fonts/latin2/75dpi 118k fonts.orig/latin2/75dpi
> 970k fonts/latin2 233k fonts.orig/latin2
> 512 fonts/local 512 fonts.orig/local
> 3.1M fonts/misc 248k fonts.orig/misc
> 18k fonts/PEX 14k fonts.orig/PEX
> 269k fonts/Speedo 269k fonts.orig/Speedo
> 4.7M fonts/ttfonts 1.0M fonts.orig/Type1
> 1.0M fonts/Type1 63k fonts.orig/util
> 63k fonts/util 2.3M fonts.orig
> 12M fonts
>
> I see that most of the directories on my build are not as
> big and I'm completely missing the ttfonts directory.
>
> Just wondering what could have happened and how Suhaib was
> able to get the correct fonts (although at first also had a
> problem).
>
> --Kevin
>
>
>