fonts and symbolic links

[Boaz Harrosh]

As I am trying to pack a minimum X installation 
(see:http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-07/msg00207.html)

I have played around with using windows fonts and only supplying the 
smallest possible fonts in download.
I have done the following:
1) run> mkfontdir -  in the /cygdrive/c/windows/font/ directory
2) run> ttmkfdir.exe >> font.dir - I found ttmkfdir.exe in an old 
cygwin/xfree (not x.org) installation. It is very useful still. I 
suggest someone updates it to the new x.org package or should I have 
used something else?

[Q] if I run> ln -s /cygdrive/c/windows/font/ 
/usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF - On load, XWin.log will still complain 
about /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF been not loadable.
But if I deep copy > cp /cygdrive/c/windows/font/* 
/usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ - than it is OK. Why would XWin not follow 
the symbolic link prepared by cygwin1.dll? This is Important as it is a 
big Resource and I don't want to duplicate windows font directory.