CYGWIN_ROOT Question -- Attn: XFree86-fnts maintainer

[Harold L Hunt II]

Igor,

Thanks for the fix.  This was indeed my fault and the fix is elegant.

I have uploaded 4.2.0-3 versions of all of the fonts packages, which 
will fix the problem, but will annoy those that have already downloaded 
them...

Harold

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Gerald,
> 
> Well, this is not a bug in setup.exe, but it looks like a bug in the
> postinstall scripts for the XFree86-f??? packages.  Basically, the scripts
> re-mount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts to force a binary mount.  They use
> `cygpath -w` to find the Windows path of the fonts directory.
> Unfortunately, they do it *before* unmounting the old one, so if you
> change the Cygwin installation root between the runs of the scripts, they
> will still refer to the old directory.
> 
> The fix (for the postinstall scripts) is to unmount the directory *first*,
> and then run `cygpath -w`.  The corrected postinstall scripts would each
> look like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> FONTDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> umount -u $FONTDIR 2>/dev/null
> WFONTDIR=`cygpath -w $FONTDIR`
> mount -bfs $WFONTDIR $FONTDIR 2>/dev/null || mount -bfu $WFONTDIR $FONTDIR
> 
> The same changes as a patch (for XFree86-fnts.sh) are below.
> 
> Hopefully this makes its way into the fonts package.  Until it does, you
> could simply "umount -u /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts", and re-install all of
> the XFree86-f??? packages that you need using setup.exe.
> 	Igor
> ==============================================================================
> --- XFree86-fnts.sh-orig        2002-04-28 02:11:37.000000000 -0400
> +++ XFree86-fnts.sh     2003-07-02 19:16:29.000000000 -0400
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>  #!/bin/sh
> 
>  FONTDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> -WFONTDIR=`cygpath -w $FONTDIR`
>  umount -u $FONTDIR 2>/dev/null
> +WFONTDIR=`cygpath -w $FONTDIR`
>  mount -bfs $WFONTDIR $FONTDIR 2>/dev/null || mount -bfu $WFONTDIR $FONTDIR
> ==============================================================================
> 
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Gerald Pekmezi wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thanks for the reply
>>
>>I have come to believe this is an X problem after all and will add a post
>>there.
>>It seems that during my cygwin installation everything was installed in D:
>>(D:\usr, D:\bin etc), except for usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts. which was instead
>>installed as C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts . When I restore the latter
>>XWin will run however it refuses to do so if
>>C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts does not exist. I did add the font
>>directory to D:\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\, but it did not make a difference.
>>Possible bug in cygwin setup.exe?
>>
>>"Larry Hall" <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com> wrote in message news:3F02E9F7.6010505@cygwin.com...
>>
>>>Gerald Pekmezi wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Thanks in advance for helping.
>>>>
>>>>I originally had Linux RH9 installed on the second partition of my
>>>>primary (and at the time only) harddrive. I have since dedicated a
>>>>secondary hard drive to Linux, and figured I would completely
>>>>dedicate the partition to Cygwin (D:\). However I have begun to
>>>>suspect that setting CYGWIN_ROOT to D:\ is not sufficient (XWin
>>>>refuses to run, I don't think its an X problem, but if it is I guess
>>>>this post will be moved).
>>>>My question is whether there is a quick fix to this or whether it is
>>>>more trouble than it is worth.
>>>
>>>Hm.  Now that's a good one.  Perhaps my memory is failing me but in all
>>>the years I've been using Cygwin, I don't ever recall CYGWIN_ROOT being
>>>officially used.  Perhaps you should back up and start over with:
>>>
>>><http://cygwin.com/problems.html>
>>>and
>>><http://cygwin.com/lists.html>
> 
> 


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