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Subject: Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz AT cygwin DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:49:23 -0500
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On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 20:22 -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 10/6/2015 7:40 PM, Michael Enright wrote:
> > 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.

This should be fixed by setup 2.872, released today.

--
Yaakov



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