On 1/26/2020 10:25 PM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > Am 25.01.2020 um 15:23 schrieb Rodrigo Medina: >> Hi, >> Both installations of grace-5.1.24 and grace-5.1.245 are broken. >> /usr/bin/xmgrace.exe runs but gives the message: >> --> Broken or incomplete installation - read the FAQ! >> and then quits. > > After reading the FAQ and comparing with a direct build from upstream > sources, I > find the reason for that is that the FontDataBase file of the distributed > package is, indeed, wrong. > > Apparently the type1 font directory supplied by grace was replaced by a link > to > ghostscript's type1 font repository. But the FontDataBase wasn't updated to > match this change. This mismatch causes xmgrace to baulk. This change was > made > between revisions 5.1.24 and 5.1.25 of the cygwin package, which neatly > explains > why 5.1.24 works, but 5.1.25 does not.
See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-03/msg00142.html https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-03/msg00156.html Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
