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Linus Hicks via Cygwin" Reply-To: "C. Linus Hicks" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "Cygwin" The company gave us a new VDI with Windows 11 installed to replace the old VDI where Cygwin 64 had been installed on Windows 10. After installing Cygwin on the new machine, I noticed a strange problem with it that I was just now able to track down. The files created in /etc/fonts/conf.d by the libfontconfig-common package were not created as symlinks but rather as flat files having contents like so: !../../../usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf There are symlinks scattered around /usr/share in various directories that were created correctly, and if I execute ln -s in the /etc/fonts/conf.d directory, it will create an entry that acts like a symlink. I tried reinstalling the libfontconfig-common package using the Cygwin installer, but it didn't help. I also tried downgrading to a different version, still no help. Perhaps I am misunderstanding which package install should be creating these symlinks, but looking for help here, and not understanding why they were created incorrectly on the initial install. Linus -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple