On 3/18/06, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Getting Xorg-7 to install its fonts in /usr/share/X11/fonts is not easy.
> Most of the fonts need to be passed the option
>
> --with-fontdir=/usr/share/X11/fonts/$3
>
> Where $3 is one of 100dpi 75dpi Type1 misc TTF speedo cyrillic or OTF
I thought that fontdir=${libdir}/X11/fonts/$3 for each package, so
that it was as easy as passing --libdir=/usr/share to all the font
packages.
> Font-alias needs to be told
>
> --with-top-fontdir=/usr/share/X11/fonts
>
> Font-util needs
>
> --with-mapdir=/usr/share/X11/fonts/util
>
> and font-misc-ethiopic needs
>
> --with-ttf-fontdir=/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF \
> --with-otf-fontdir=/usr/share/X11/fonts/OTF
Didn't know these.
> This will make the xorg-7 instructions more complicated, and they are
> already pretty complicated.
Yeah, definitely at this point it looks like a lot more trouble than
it's worth. Thanks for posting the info, though. I'll probably go
with /usr/share/X11/fonts in my own scripts since I'm going through
each package individually.
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Dan
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