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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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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


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