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Subject: | Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 |
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From: | Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu> |
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Date: | Tue, 6 Oct 2015 20:22:06 -0400 |
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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
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