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Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 19:20:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com
To: Gerald Pekmezi <gpekme1 AT lsu DOT edu>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, <cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: CYGWIN_ROOT Question -- Attn: XFree86-fnts maintainer
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Gerald,

Well, this is not a bug in setup.exe, but it looks like a bug in the
postinstall scripts for the XFree86-f??? packages.  Basically, the scripts
re-mount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts to force a binary mount.  They use
`cygpath -w` to find the Windows path of the fonts directory.
Unfortunately, they do it *before* unmounting the old one, so if you
change the Cygwin installation root between the runs of the scripts, they
will still refer to the old directory.

The fix (for the postinstall scripts) is to unmount the directory *first*,
and then run `cygpath -w`.  The corrected postinstall scripts would each
look like this:

#!/bin/sh

FONTDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
umount -u $FONTDIR 2>/dev/null
WFONTDIR=`cygpath -w $FONTDIR`
mount -bfs $WFONTDIR $FONTDIR 2>/dev/null || mount -bfu $WFONTDIR $FONTDIR

The same changes as a patch (for XFree86-fnts.sh) are below.

Hopefully this makes its way into the fonts package.  Until it does, you
could simply "umount -u /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts", and re-install all of
the XFree86-f??? packages that you need using setup.exe.
	Igor
==============================================================================
--- XFree86-fnts.sh-orig        2002-04-28 02:11:37.000000000 -0400
+++ XFree86-fnts.sh     2003-07-02 19:16:29.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh

 FONTDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
-WFONTDIR=`cygpath -w $FONTDIR`
 umount -u $FONTDIR 2>/dev/null
+WFONTDIR=`cygpath -w $FONTDIR`
 mount -bfs $WFONTDIR $FONTDIR 2>/dev/null || mount -bfu $WFONTDIR $FONTDIR
==============================================================================

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Gerald Pekmezi wrote:

> Thanks for the reply
>
> I have come to believe this is an X problem after all and will add a post
> there.
> It seems that during my cygwin installation everything was installed in D:
> (D:\usr, D:\bin etc), except for usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts. which was instead
> installed as C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts . When I restore the latter
> XWin will run however it refuses to do so if
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts does not exist. I did add the font
> directory to D:\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\, but it did not make a difference.
> Possible bug in cygwin setup.exe?
>
> "Larry Hall" <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote in message news:3F02E9F7 DOT 6010505 AT cygwin DOT com...
> > Gerald Pekmezi wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks in advance for helping.
> > >
> > > I originally had Linux RH9 installed on the second partition of my
> > > primary (and at the time only) harddrive. I have since dedicated a
> > > secondary hard drive to Linux, and figured I would completely
> > > dedicate the partition to Cygwin (D:\). However I have begun to
> > > suspect that setting CYGWIN_ROOT to D:\ is not sufficient (XWin
> > > refuses to run, I don't think its an X problem, but if it is I guess
> > > this post will be moved).
> > > My question is whether there is a quick fix to this or whether it is
> > > more trouble than it is worth.
> >
> > Hm.  Now that's a good one.  Perhaps my memory is failing me but in all
> > the years I've been using Cygwin, I don't ever recall CYGWIN_ROOT being
> > officially used.  Perhaps you should back up and start over with:
> >
> > <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>
> > and
> > <http://cygwin.com/lists.html>

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