On 6/28/06, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As far as I know, these things should never have happened to begin with. I don't remember there ever being a problem with the font installation in BLFS - the only problem (which still exists) was users who simply didn't see the font configuration instructions (which I have been guilty of myself many times). The instructions in the stable book work perfectly fine - it simply installs fonts into X's default installation location of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, and updates fontconfigs configuration file.
This shouldn't be a problem now. If the symlinks from /usr/share/fonts to the X font TTF and OTF directories are made, then you have fonts in /usr/share/fonts without ever configuring the fonts. This assumes that you installed the TTF and/or OTF fonts, which should happen if you follow the book.
Also, neither the stable book nor the current dev book install fonts into /usr/share/fonts - for a short time, BLFS did do that by default, but Patrakov pointed out that this leads to problems so it was changed to the current method of making a couple symlinks from /usr/share/fonts to the font installation dir.
I understand what the problems are. I rewrote the sections to make this happen. Fonts are not installed to /usr/share/fonts by default now, but symlinks are made in the X installation so that you will have fonts there. Unless the instructions are buggy, the font configuration should be totally optional. Well, not if you're using a locale where the X TTF fonts don't cover your languague's scripts. But that shouldn't make Firefox crash. If this really is a problem, then we can make the font configuration part of the default setup. For instance, we could install FreeFont during Fontconfig. This at least would give wide Unicode coverage for a decent starting point. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
