Continuing my gnome saga, I fired it up for the first time yesterday.
Here are two consecutive entries into my project log:
jamzen: 11:44 AM Sun, 14 Nov 2010
hamilton:/build/gn/gnome-user-docs-2.30.1
tags: gnome first run
[1] The desktop comes up ok, but there's no text -- only an empty box
for each character.
root: 03:19 PM Sun, 14 Nov 2010
hamilton:/usr/share/fonts
tags: fonts error solved
There appears to have been an error in the BLFS book. I inadvertently
propagated it into the softlinks in this directory. I've corrected
them, and gnome is now fully literate.
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The error appears in the fourth graybox on the "Xorg Fonts" page in
svn-20101016, and it's still there in svn-20101112:
ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/share/fonts/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF
ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/share/fonts/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF
I'm installing into /opt/X11, and the fonts are in
/opt/X11/share/fonts/X11
*not*
/opt/X11/share/fonts/X11/fonts
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Anway, I figured you'd want to know.
This is the first time I've taken an LFS / BLFS build this far. I'm
blown away that I actually now have a working gnome on top of my Xwindow
system. I figured I'd encounter some really insurmountable mess-up
before I got this far.
Congratulation and thanks to everybody in this BLFS group. I've learned
a tremendous amount, and kept a pretty detailed log of what that
included. I may put it up soon, somewhere where others can compare
notes with what I experienced.
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