On 7/24/2020 1:19 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
On 24.07.2020 05:00, Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin wrote:
Hello.
I recently installed a copy of the Cygwin software package on my new
Windows 10 laptop. However, whenever I try to access the "xmgrace"
graphing software (by entering the command "xmgrace &" in the xterm command
shell, as I did on my old Windows 7 laptop), I get the following error
message:
[vansc@LAPTOP-OHN2RCVM ~]$ xmgrace &
[1] 1183
[vansc@LAPTOP-OHN2RCVM ~]$ --> Broken or incomplete installation - read the
FAQ!
[1] Exit 1 xmgrace
[vansc@LAPTOP-OHN2RCVM ~]$
I tried reading the FAQ, but it was unhelpful for this particular issue.
Does anyone have any ideas about why this might be happening?? Also, if it
is an incomplete installation, then does anyone know what set of Cygwin
utilities I need to install to obtain a fully-functioning copy of the
"xmgrace" graphing software?
there is an entry about Fonts, and
a strace output shows that xmgrace is looking for type1 fonts on
/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1
in the past ghostscript provided them, but not anymore,
so I *guess* you need this workaround
install "urw-base35-fonts-legacy" package
$ cd /usr/share/grace/fonts/
$ ln -s /usr/share/X11/fonts/urw-fonts type1
the fonts looked by xgrace are :
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/d050000l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019003l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019004l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019023l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019024l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n021003l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n021004l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n021023l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n021024l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n022003l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n022004l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n022023l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n022024l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/s050000l.pfa
and their pfb counterpart.
This problem was reported 2 1/2 years ago, and its solution was posted here:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2018-March/236345.html
The problem and solution have been rediscovered several times since then. Maybe
one of the xmgrace users who has reported this would be willing to adopt the
grace package and finally fix it.
Ken
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