RE: font.dir a font.alias related with Can't start X

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Do you still have font corruptions after you added . to PATH?
This should find extract.exe first.
Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luc Ferran [mailto:Luc.FERRAN-EXTERNAL@gemplus.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 8:07 AM
> To: Suhaib Siddiqi
> Cc: 'cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Subject: Re: font.dir a font.alias related with Can't start X
> 
> > > More over, I've had a look in Xinstall.sh about tests made on
> > > extract and
> > > extract.exe.
> > > I've typed the same comand line : extract --version | head -1.
> > > I've saw that a Microsoft version of extract was
> > > responding(c:\winnt\extract.exe).
> >
> > Well, then it is obvious if you have another extract.exe in your
> PATH.
> > It could corrupt the archives.  You need to set your PATH in a way
> that M$
> > version of extract is not found first.
> 
> I've vérified that. Here is my original PATH
> /usr/x11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system
> 32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/Tools/WinNT:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/MSDev98/Bin:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/Tools:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/Microsoft
> Visual Studio/VC98/bin:/home/administrator/scripts
> 
> I've put . as first path to have
> .:/usr/x11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/syst
> em32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/Tools/WinNT:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/MSDev98/Bin:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/Tools:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/Microsoft
> Visual Studio/VC98/bin:/home/administrator/scripts
> 
> and here is the result of Xinstall.sh :
> 
> Do you wish to continue? (y/n) [n] y
> 
> Checking which OS you're running...
> uname reports 'CYGWIN_NT-4.0' version '1.3.2(0.39/3/2)',
> architecture 'i686'.
> 
> chmod: changing permissions of `extract': No such file or directory
> /tmp/X11/gnu-tar: .XFree86_Version: Not found in archive
> /tmp/X11/gnu-tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> Warning: can't detect the bindist version
> Checking for required files ...
> 
> Any other test?
> 
> Luc