O.k. If the problem still exists, contact Keith Packard directly. It's more than likely he missed the post too. But this code is his domain and he's been banging on it a lot lately.
I'm sure Keith will respond. Alan. On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:39:24AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: > Alan, > > Hmm... as usual I misspoke... I was bitching about the ``findfonts'' script > which runs on the installed fonts rather than on fonts being built. > > I'll have to look into the font build utility problem. > > I hate it when I get confused. Anyway, here is what I wrote to the XFree86 > devel list. > > Harold > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Harold Hunt > Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 7:44 PM > To: xf-devel > Subject: xc/lib/fontconfig/fonts.conf depends on existing fonts > installation > > > I don't understand why xc/lib/fontconfig/fonts.conf runs the script > xc/lib/fontconfig/findfonts which looks at the *currently installed fonts*. > That doesn't make any sense to me. Shouldn't you be able to build XFree86 > on a machine that doesn't have any fonts installed, or for that matter, any > piece of XFree86 installed? > > The problem that I'm running into on Cygwin is that even if > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts exits but /usr/share/fonts doesn't exist then the > findfonts script fails because 'find' cannot find that directory. I'm not > certain that this is a Cygwin only problem, but it is the only platform that > I am building on. > > I propose that one of two things be done: > > 1) Do not execute the scripts that do things for *installed* fonts, as this > makes no sense. > > 2) Or, change the findfonts script to silently fail if either of the fonts > directories cannot be found, thus removing a non-error error from build > logs. > > > Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed to the devel list. > > A snippet of my build log follows. > > > Harold Hunt > > > > > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/home/Administrator/x-devel/build/std/lib/fontconfig > /fc-list' > rm -f fonts.conf > sh ./setfontdirs > find: /usr/share/fonts: No such file or directory > ed: not found > make: *** [fonts.conf] Error 127
