On 6/28/06, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andrey Voropaev wrote:
> firefox :) BTW where is it done? I couldn't find it.
What do you mean where is it done? This question was already answered
above, by Dan. You configure fonts as described in the X Window System
Components page. The /usr/
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 configuratio
Dan Nicholson wrote:
Creation of /usr/share/fonts is not quite enough, I don't think. You
need to at least have a font in there. But if you follow X by the
book, this will happen. And since X is a dependency of Firefox, then
you should have fonts in /usr/share/fonts when you build Firefox. At
On 6/28/06, Andrey Voropaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/27/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> However, you should have the /usr/share/fonts directory already if you
> followed the instructions in the BLFS SVN book. What version are you
> using?
I was using the stable BLFS. Ins
Andrey Voropaev wrote these words on 06/28/06 02:36 CST:
> So I guess it would be nice to
> have the part about creation of /usr/share/fonts as a dependency for
> firefox :) BTW where is it done? I couldn't find it.
It is already a dependency (bad choice of words, but you are told to
do it) of the
Andrey Voropaev wrote:
I didn't believe Alexander when he said no one reads the font
configuration section. Now after about the 5th email this month were
someone failed to configure their fonts, I believe him.
Please read this section.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/x-setup.htm
On 6/27/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/26/06, Andrey Voropaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> First of all, the list of extensions for firefox may cause the
> compilation problems during build. Looks like some of those extensions
> expect more packages to be installed. So, after
On 6/26/06, Andrey Voropaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First of all, the list of extensions for firefox may cause the
compilation problems during build. Looks like some of those extensions
expect more packages to be installed. So, after a bit of struggle I've
removed the explicit list and let th
On 6/27/06, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Firefox is in fact known not to work if it can't find the fonts - same
with a number of other programs. It's not a bug in the Firefox code.
That's why BLFS tells you to configure the fonts after installing X.
Read the "Additional X Configuration"
Andrey Voropaev wrote:
Just in case, decided to share some expirience in building firefox.
First of all, the list of extensions for firefox may cause the
compilation problems during build. Looks like some of those extensions
expect more packages to be installed. So, after a bit of struggle I've
Just in case, decided to share some expirience in building firefox.
First of all, the list of extensions for firefox may cause the
compilation problems during build. Looks like some of those extensions
expect more packages to be installed. So, after a bit of struggle I've
removed the explicit lis
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