Re: building issue

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

J. Offerman wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Jon TURNEY<jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> > afaik, since this wrapper isn't doing anything useful for you in this
> > particular case, you can invoke .libs/XWin.exe directly and it should just
> > work.
>
> Moving on, now it seems okay to start .libs/XWin.exe but it doesn't
> "look" okay literally. Turns out, fonts are gone. Xlsfonts reports
> only six.
>
> logname@host> xlsfonts
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
> 6x13
> cursor
> fixed

These are the 'builtin' fonts.

> I tried reinstalling all the fonts(such as font-adobe-dpi75 and
> font-bh-dpi100) and now /usr/share/fonts has lots of dirs(dpi75,
> dpi100, misc, Type1 and others)  and hundreds of .gz files underneath.
>
> How should I proceed from here?

Read the X server log file.  I would guess that it will show that the X 
server is unable to load any fonts, for one of the following reasons:

1) You've built an X server with a dynamically linked libXfont, which 
doesn't work correctly for reasons discussed at [1], so the X server is 
unable to load any fonts.

2) You've built an X server configured to find fonts from somewhere 
other than /usr/share/fonts.  Add --with-fontdir=/usr/share/fonts  to 
your ./configure invocation and rebuild.


[1] 
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/cg/prog-build-prerequisites.html#prog-compiling-environment-setup

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