On 3/15/06, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > * Add --libdir=/usr/share to the Fonts section of xorg7.xml with note that > > the fonts will end up in /usr/share/X11/fonts with the switch. > > This should be tested before actually putting into the book. Reason: by > installing fonts and encodings into any non-standard place, it is easy > to break libfontenc functionality (and thus xterm). Been there, done that :(
Yeah, I agree. This is how RedHat does it, but paldo does it the same way. Here's a spec file for encodings, font-util and a font package from paldo: http://www.paldo.org/paldo/specs/font-encodings.xml http://www.paldo.org/paldo/specs/font-util.xml http://www.paldo.org/paldo/specs/font-misc-misc.xml He uses --libdir=/usr/share for all 3. But, you're right, this does need to be tested for BLFS. I'll be building this way. I'll report back with my findings later. Moving on. > Everywhere in my previous mail where I said "/usr/share/X11/fonts" I > actually meant "the default place where X installs fonts without > explicit #define FontDir .....". Sorry for the confusion. Now I'm confused. So, the effect you were after *really* was: 1. Configure fontconfig with --without-add-fonts 2. Let X install its fonts in the default location ($XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/fonts) 3. Symlink /usr/share/fonts/X11-{OTF,TTF} -> $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/fonts/{OTF,TTF} Correct? > > Add link to DejaVu fonts. Mention UTF-8 coverage of > > that package. > > s/UTF-8/Unicode/ -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
