[blfs-support] BLFS 7.10 fonts less clear than in 7.9.

[rhubarbpieguy]

I've run BLFS 7.10 for several days and noticed less clear fonts than 
with 7.9.  I reinstalled from square one without success and don't see 
my error.


As a test, I reinstalled BLFS 7.10, but with BLFS 7.9 dejavu and 
fontconfig packages (dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.35 and fontconfig-2.11.1) and my 
fonts are fine.  So I have a workable solution, but my fix is a 
workaround.  I've kept my bad fonts 7.10 build.  How can I pinpoint the 
problem?


I should mention my BLFS 7.10 fonts weren't terrible, but definitely 
less clear.  And again, my only deviation from the BLFS 7.10 
documentation was using 7.9 dejavu and fontconfig packages. It appears 
the procedures to compile each are unchanged from 7.9.

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[blfs-support] Error in xorg-fonts

[Thomas Trepl]

Hi all,

I got following message while installing the Xorg fonts:

...
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for root directory for font files... Package fontutil was not
found in
the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fontutil.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'fontutil' found
${datarootdir}/fonts/X11
checking for directory for 100dpi files... ${FONTROOTDIR}/100dpi
checking for fc-cache... /usr/bin/fc-cache
checking for mkfontdir... /usr/X11/bin/mkfontdir
checking for bdftopcf... /usr/X11/bin/bdftopcf
checking font compression method... gzip
checking for gzip... /bin/gzip
checking for ucs2any... no
configure: error: ucs2any is required to build font-adobe-100dpi.

Any ideas what happened here?   Neither ucs2any nor fontutil are in the
book, so i wonder why this hard dependency comes up here.

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Re: [blfs-support] Error in xorg-fonts

[Samuel Tyler]

On Tuesday, 20 September 2016, Thomas Trepl 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I got following message while installing the Xorg fonts:
>
> ...
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
> checking for root directory for font files... Package fontutil was not
> found in
> the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fontutil.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'fontutil' found
> ${datarootdir}/fonts/X11
> checking for directory for 100dpi files... ${FONTROOTDIR}/100dpi
> checking for fc-cache... /usr/bin/fc-cache
> checking for mkfontdir... /usr/X11/bin/mkfontdir
> checking for bdftopcf... /usr/X11/bin/bdftopcf
> checking font compression method... gzip
> checking for gzip... /bin/gzip
> checking for ucs2any... no
> configure: error: ucs2any is required to build font-adobe-100dpi.
>
> Any ideas what happened here?   Neither ucs2any nor fontutil are in the
> book, so i wonder why this hard dependency comes up here.
>
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I assume you are using BLFS 7.10? Are fontutil or ucs2any related?


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Re: [blfs-support] Updates Without Crashing LFS

[Wayne Sallee]

On 09/12/2016 08:10 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:

Magic-SysRQ in the kernel, so if it hangs Alt-SysRq-S (sync), pause
briefly, Alt-SysRq-B (boot).


Yes that's is one of the things that I really like about linux. It also works 
good for boot problems as well.

Thanks for all your help!

Wayne Sallee
wa...@waynesallee.com
http://www.WayneSallee.com
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Re: [blfs-support] BLFS 7.10 fonts less clear than in 7.9.

[Michael Shell]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:29:19 +0100
Ken Moffat  wrote:

> The internet has a plethora of suggestions for tweaking what happens
> in fontconfig.


The quality of on-screen font rendering under Linux has long irked me.
It seems that after I finally get things the way I like, some upgrade
to Freetype or GTK comes along that breaks something. There have been
some really bad releases of Freetype in the past, IMHO.

Anyway, below is my /etc/fonts/local.conf receipe (I'm running Freetype
2.6.3 with Fontconfig-2.11.1) that I like best on my system (so far).
Note that I am unusual in that I use the venerable Type 1 Nimbus fonts
for default on screen rendering. Try my font config, rhubarb pie guy,
and let us know if you like it or if it helps at all. Be sure and
adjust the paths for your case as needed.

  Cheers,

  Mike Shell








/usr/share/fonts
/usr/X11/share/fonts/X11/Type1





  
   
 
 false
 
   
  
 




  false

  






Helvetica


sans-serif





  
   true
  


 
 
  
none
  

 
 
  
   false
  
  
 
  
   hintnone
  
 



  false

  
 
 

  lcddefault

 



 
 
 
   112



# preferred/default serif, sans and monospace fonts
# use 
# fc-match --verbose sans-serif
# to check what is actually use for the given request

  serif
  Nimbus Roman No9 L


  sans-serif
  Nimbus Sans L


  monospace
  Nimbus Mono L



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