Dan Nicholson wrote:
Creation of /usr/share/fonts is not quite enough, I don't think. You
need to at least have a font in there. But if you follow X by the
book, this will happen. And since X is a dependency of Firefox, then
you should have fonts in /usr/share/fonts when you build Firefox. At
least for the development (hopefully soon to become stable) book.
Problems like yours are a big reason the font installation was
changed. These things shouldn't happen anymore.
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Dan
As far as I know, these things should never have happened to begin with.
I don't remember there ever being a problem with the font installation
in BLFS - the only problem (which still exists) was users who simply
didn't see the font configuration instructions (which I have been guilty
of myself many times). The instructions in the stable book work
perfectly fine - it simply installs fonts into X's default installation
location of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, and updates fontconfigs
configuration file.
Also, neither the stable book nor the current dev book install fonts
into /usr/share/fonts - for a short time, BLFS did do that by default,
but Patrakov pointed out that this leads to problems so it was changed
to the current method of making a couple symlinks from /usr/share/fonts
to the font installation dir.
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