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fonts and symbolic links


As I am trying to pack a minimum X installation (see:http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-07/msg00207.html)

I have played around with using windows fonts and only supplying the smallest possible fonts in download.
I have done the following:
1) run> mkfontdir - in the /cygdrive/c/windows/font/ directory
2) run> ttmkfdir.exe >> font.dir - I found ttmkfdir.exe in an old cygwin/xfree (not x.org) installation. It is very useful still. I suggest someone updates it to the new x.org package or should I have used something else?


[Q] if I run> ln -s /cygdrive/c/windows/font/ /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF - On load, XWin.log will still complain about /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF been not loadable.
But if I deep copy > cp /cygdrive/c/windows/font/* /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ - than it is OK. Why would XWin not follow the symbolic link prepared by cygwin1.dll? This is Important as it is a big Resource and I don't want to duplicate windows font directory.



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