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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 1996 00:18:55 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Cc:        XFree86-beta@XFree86.Org (XFree86 beta test list)
Subject:   Re: Java,Netscape, & AccelX
Message-ID:  <199610082218.AAA22171@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <19019.844798928@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Oct 8, 96 11:22:08 am"

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

(Sorry for the blatant crosspost.  Background: Netcrap recommends
people to run a `mkfontdir' in .../lib/X11/fonts/misc/ if they
experience segfaults, and it turns out that the actual problem is that
the fonts.dir in the XFree86 distribution mismatches with the actually
installed fonts if somebody didn't install all the font packages.)

> > So yes, this is a reason where the installation script should always
> > finally run a `mkfontdir' there.  Jordan?
> 
> Actually, this should be part of XF86config since FreeBSD isn't
> the only OS which could potentially suffer from this problem.
> Rich? :-)

Hmm, XF86Config?  I thought this was only for creating the config file
in /etc.  Anyway, i'll move it into the XFree86 beta list then...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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