Re: CYGWIN_ROOT Question -- Attn: XFree86-fnts maintainer

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Harold,

Another option that I've just thought of is splitting out the postinstall
scripts from all the fonts packages (which, AFAICS, are identical), and
packaging them separately, as, say, an XFree86-fpost helper package, and
then making all the fonts packages depend on this new one.  This will
avoid the redundancy and the necessity (in the future) to re-download some
rather large packages for the sake of a changed postinstall script.

It also makes sense to do it now, before people download the 4.2.0-3 fonts
packages.  However, as fonts seem to be pretty static, the above may not
be worth the bother.
	Igor

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Igor,
>
> Thanks for the fix.  This was indeed my fault and the fix is elegant.
>
> I have uploaded 4.2.0-3 versions of all of the fonts packages, which
> will fix the problem, but will annoy those that have already downloaded
> them...
>
> Harold
>
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > Gerald,
> >
> > Well, this is not a bug in setup.exe, but it looks like a bug in the
> > postinstall scripts for the XFree86-f??? packages.  Basically, the scripts
> > re-mount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts to force a binary mount.  They use
> > `cygpath -w` to find the Windows path of the fonts directory.
> > Unfortunately, they do it *before* unmounting the old one, so if you
> > change the Cygwin installation root between the runs of the scripts, they
> > will still refer to the old directory.
> >
> > The fix (for the postinstall scripts) is to unmount the directory *first*,
> > and then run `cygpath -w`.  The corrected postinstall scripts would each
> > look like this:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > FONTDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> > umount -u $FONTDIR 2>/dev/null
> > WFONTDIR=`cygpath -w $FONTDIR`
> > mount -bfs $WFONTDIR $FONTDIR 2>/dev/null || mount -bfu $WFONTDIR $FONTDIR
> >
> > The same changes as a patch (for XFree86-fnts.sh) are below.
> >
> > Hopefully this makes its way into the fonts package.  Until it does, you
> > could simply "umount -u /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts", and re-install all of
> > the XFree86-f??? packages that you need using setup.exe.
> >       Igor
> > ==============================================================================
> > --- XFree86-fnts.sh-orig        2002-04-28 02:11:37.000000000 -0400
> > +++ XFree86-fnts.sh     2003-07-02 19:16:29.000000000 -0400
> > @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> >  #!/bin/sh
> >
> >  FONTDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> > -WFONTDIR=`cygpath -w $FONTDIR`
> >  umount -u $FONTDIR 2>/dev/null
> > +WFONTDIR=`cygpath -w $FONTDIR`
> >  mount -bfs $WFONTDIR $FONTDIR 2>/dev/null || mount -bfu $WFONTDIR $FONTDIR
> > ==============================================================================
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Gerald Pekmezi wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Thanks for the reply
> >>
> >>I have come to believe this is an X problem after all and will add a post
> >>there.
> >>It seems that during my cygwin installation everything was installed in D:
> >>(D:\usr, D:\bin etc), except for usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts. which was instead
> >>installed as C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts . When I restore the latter
> >>XWin will run however it refuses to do so if
> >>C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts does not exist. I did add the font
> >>directory to D:\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\, but it did not make a difference.
> >>Possible bug in cygwin setup.exe?
> >>
> >>"Larry Hall" <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com> wrote in message news:3F02E9F7.6010505@cygwin.com...
> >>
> >>>Gerald Pekmezi wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Thanks in advance for helping.
> >>>>
> >>>>I originally had Linux RH9 installed on the second partition of my
> >>>>primary (and at the time only) harddrive. I have since dedicated a
> >>>>secondary hard drive to Linux, and figured I would completely
> >>>>dedicate the partition to Cygwin (D:\). However I have begun to
> >>>>suspect that setting CYGWIN_ROOT to D:\ is not sufficient (XWin
> >>>>refuses to run, I don't think its an X problem, but if it is I guess
> >>>>this post will be moved).
> >>>>My question is whether there is a quick fix to this or whether it is
> >>>>more trouble than it is worth.
> >>>
> >>>Hm.  Now that's a good one.  Perhaps my memory is failing me but in all
> >>>the years I've been using Cygwin, I don't ever recall CYGWIN_ROOT being
> >>>officially used.  Perhaps you should back up and start over with:
> >>>
> >>><http://cygwin.com/problems.html>
> >>>and
> >>><http://cygwin.com/lists.html>

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