Bug 10489 – Automatic addition of Truetype fonts don't work.

Bug 10489 - Automatic addition of Truetype fonts don't work.

Summary:	Automatic addition of Truetype fonts don't work.

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	XFree86 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Preston Brown
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Reported:	2000-03-31 13:40 EST by Terje Røsten
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-05-30 12:58:47 EDT
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Description Terje Røsten 2000-03-31 13:40:51 EST

If you add a truetype font to a directory with truetype fonts
an restart xfs, the new font will not be added to the fonts.dir file.
The following patch fix this:

--- xfs.old	Fri Mar 31 18:24:23 2000
+++ xfs	Fri Mar 31 18:19:15 2000
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 			fi
 			if test $NEEDED = yes; then
 				rm -f fonts.dir &>/dev/null
-				if test "x`ls |egrep --ignore-case -v '\.ttf$|^fonts\.'`" != x; then
+				if test "x`ls |egrep --ignore-case -v '\.ttf$|^fonts|^encodings\.'`"
!= x; then
 					# This directory contains fonts that are not TrueType...

 					mkfontdir -e /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings \

Comment 1 Preston Brown 2000-05-30 12:58:59 EDT

thanks for the fixup, this will be included in an X errata release coming out
this week.

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