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Re: grace broken installation
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:58:59 +0000
- Subject: Re: grace broken installation
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On 1/26/2020 10:25 PM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 25.01.2020 um 15:23 schrieb Rodrigo Medina:
>> Hi,
>> Both installations of grace-5.1.24 and grace-5.1.245 are broken.
>> /usr/bin/xmgrace.exe runs but gives the message:
>> --> Broken or incomplete installation - read the FAQ!
>> and then quits.
>
> After reading the FAQ and comparing with a direct build from upstream sources, I
> find the reason for that is that the FontDataBase file of the distributed
> package is, indeed, wrong.
>
> Apparently the type1 font directory supplied by grace was replaced by a link to
> ghostscript's type1 font repository. But the FontDataBase wasn't updated to
> match this change. This mismatch causes xmgrace to baulk. This change was made
> between revisions 5.1.24 and 5.1.25 of the cygwin package, which neatly explains
> why 5.1.24 works, but 5.1.25 does not.
See
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-03/msg00142.html
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-03/msg00156.html
Ken
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