On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:01:02AM +0200, Andrey Voropaev wrote:
> 
> If you don't understand it, then you should try the command and see
> the result :) This command shall create "file" /usr/bin/X11, which
> shall be a symbolic link and that symbolic link will point to
> /usr/bin/../X11R6/bin, which is /usr/X11R6/bin. If you installed Xorg
> in the default prefix (/usr/X11R6) then that's the directory where all
> the binaries for Xorg are.
No I still don't get it.  I did not install in the default.  I pasted my 
host.def which made my default /usr thus /usr/X11R6 doesn't exist, thus I can't 
have a link pointing to /usr/bin/X11 from a position that doesin't exist.  I 
still don't understand why the ln commands are written with the parent 
specification.  Because that makes them subjective to which position they're 
being entered.

If I just follow the instruction that doesn't apply to my installation, I'm not 
learning anything and the philosophy of lfs is lost.

Gena
> 
> >ln -v -s ../X11R6/lib/X11 /usr/lib/X11 &&
> >This link is not required as /usr/lib/X11 is valid.
> >ln -v -s ../X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11
> >Likewise this is OK too.
> >   The Xorg fonts have been installed outside of Fontconfig's default 
> >   search path of /usr/share/fonts. In order
> >   for Fontconfig to find the installed TrueType fonts, you should make 
> >   symlinks to their directories. Assuming
> >   you've installed Xorg in the default prefix, run the following commands 
> >   as the root user:
> >install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/fonts &&
> >ln -svn /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF &&
> >I can't find OTF to creat this link.
> >ln -svn /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF
> >As my fonts seem to be in /usr/lib/X11/fonts I was able to modify this one 
> >so that fc-cache and fc-list work and I now can see some fonts from the 
> >fc-list command.  Thus I'm wondering what is the default path?  And what 
> >links do I need to create?
> 
> Well, I can't say why BLFS insists that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts is
> outside of fontconfig path. fontconfig-2.3.2 already includes that
> path in the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, so one does not need to do anything
> at all.
> 
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