RE: [E] Re: x3270

["Peter A. Castro" <doctor at fruitbat dot org>]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, mark.paulus@verizon.com wrote:

Greetings, Mark, Marco & Chris (original poster),

> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:37:36 +0000
> From: mark.paulus@verizon.com
> To: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>,
>     "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Subject: RE: [E] Re: x3270
>
> -----Original Message-----
> > On 4/15/2018 2:48 AM, Chris Johnson wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > Not sure when this happened but I now have a complaint for cygwin on
> > > exit about  x3270.sh returning exit code 1.  I found it listed in
> > > /etc/setup/install.db and remove it.  No joy.  Do I recall the x3270
> > > is defunct?  Either way, how do I get rid of this error.  It's annoying.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > x3270 is still an active package
> >
> > run /etc/postinstall/x3270.sh from bash and if you have no error rename it as /etc/postinstall/x3270.sh.done
> >
> > Regards
> > Marco

The issue with mkfontdir in the postinstall script is already known 
(reported back in 2016, yikes!).  I just haven't gotten around to issuing 
an update.

The path to the encodings dir is wrong (was moved as part of an X update). 
I have plans to better determine which directory to use, but haven't 
completed that.  I also need to build the latest version, but the 
maintainer has drastically re-org'd the code.  So, still work in progress.

The "workaround" is to either add a symlink, as you've noted below, or 
update the script to point to the "correct" place:

/usr/bin/mkfontdir -e /usr/share/x11/fonts/encodings /usr/share/fonts/misc

Oh, and, yes, adding a dependency on mkfontdir is needed.
Thanks for helping to poke me about getting this addresses.
:)

> Manually ran x3270.sh and ran into a couple of issues that looks like they could use addressing:
> First time I ran it, got this:
> $ ./x3270.sh
> ./x3270.sh: line 9: /usr/bin/mkfontdir: No such file or directory
>
> Installed mkfontdir package (need a dependency maybe?), then ran it again
> and got this:
> $ bash -x x3270.sh
> + FONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts
> + ENCODINGSDIR=/usr/share/fonts/encodings
> + MKFONTDIR=/usr/bin/mkfontdir
> + /usr/bin/mkfontdir -e /usr/share/fonts/encodings /usr/share/fonts/misc
> opendir: No such file or directory
>
> I "think" the issue here is that the encoding directory we want is actually
> in /usr/share/X11/fonts/encoding instead of /usr/share/fonts/encoding.
> Solved this by creating a soft link:
> /usr/share/fonts
> $ ln -sf /usr/share/x11/fonts/encodings .
> /usr/share/fonts
> $ ll
> total 93
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 v808297 Domain Users  0 Apr 16 13:23 ./
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 v808297 Domain Users  0 Apr 16 11:44 ../
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 v808297 Domain Users  0 Feb 26 08:50 dejavu/
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 v808297 Domain Users 30 Apr 16 13:23 encodings -> /usr/share/x11/fonts/encodings/
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 v808297 Domain Users  0 Feb 26 08:57 microsoft/
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 v808297 Domain Users  0 Feb 26 08:53 misc/
>
> After these 2 corrections the x3270.sh script ran successfully and
> I was able to rename it to x3270.sh.done
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
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