Help about xorg-x11-fnts

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Alireza Ghasemi wrote:

> Hello,
> I have downloaded xorg-x11-fonts-6.8 but I don't know how to compile
> it.There is no typical Makefile and no configure script.Please explain me
> step by step how to compile it and get use of X11 in Cygwin.I have
> downloaded all other needed packages But it is very difficult for me to
> download huge 16 MB xorg-x11-fnts binary file.

The fonts are built from a large source distribution containing everything 
from X. The xorg-x11-*-src packages are just snippets of the large distribution. 

The build from the source packages does not properly work and requires good 
knowledge of make and the directory layout of X11.

Download
xorg-x11-fnts-6.8.2.0-1-src.tar.bz2

Unpack
tar xvjf xorg-x11-fnts-6.8.2.0-1-src.tar.bz2
tar xvjf xorg-x11-fenc-6.8.2.0-1-src.tar.bz2

Fix references to xorg-x11-base-6.8.2.0-1-src.tar.bz2
ed xc/fonts/bdf/misc/Imakefile <<EOF
/Arabic
s/#if .*/#if 0/
/^CLEARLYUOBJS
s/^CLEARLYUOBJS/&_/
w
EOF

Build
cd xc/fonts/encodings
xmkmf -a
cd ../bdf
xmkmf
make Makefiles
for i in misc 75dpi 100dpi; do make -C $i install TOP=../../..; done

bye
	ago
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