From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1 i686; Nav) Description of problem: The commands to search for TrueType fonts have at least two problems: 1. "ls" can show multiple files per line. Using "egrep -v" on such results obviously can throw away some files that shouldn't have been excluded. 2. TrueType fonts can end with either ttf or ttc. The huge indenting which make lines longer than 80 chars are very annoying too ... Hence the patch: --- xfs.orig Fri Mar 30 18:51:56 2001 +++ xfs Thu May 17 16:12:16 2001 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ fi if [ "$NEEDED" = "yes" ]; then rm -f fonts.dir &>/dev/null - if ls | grep \.ttf$ &>/dev/null; then + if ls -1 | grep \.tt[fc]$ &>/dev/null; then # TrueType fonts found... ttmkfdir . >fonts.scale mkfontdir -e /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings \ @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ chmod a+r fonts.scale chmod a+r fonts.dir fi - if [ "x`ls |egrep --ignore-case -v '\.ttf$|^fonts\.|^encodings\.'`" != "x" ]; then + if [ "x`ls -1 |egrep --ignore-case -v '\.tt[fc]$|^fonts\.|^encodings\.'`" != "x" ]; then # This directory contains fonts that are not TrueType... mkfontdir -e /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings \ How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Look at the patch supplied ... Additional info:
Created attachment 18834 [details] Here is the patch again.
If ls is used with output redirection of any type, it outputs one column, not multiple. To test this try this: ls | less ls > junk.txt cat junk.txt You'll see that there is one column, so problem #1 is no problem. ;o) #2 - I have never seen truetype fonts named .ttc, so I am hesitant to make this change. If any change should be made it would be best to use file(1) to nail all valid files. Doing such however is not super high priority, but if I can't do it right away, I will consider the .ttc thing if you can point out to me where the files come from, why the distinction with .ttc instead of .ttf, and that the files are really working truetype fonts. My reason for being so picky with this stuff is that there are lots of open ttf font problems and I'm not anxious to risk making more. #3 - I agree completely about the horrible indenting problem. When I get a chance I'll be redoing that script to use 2-4 spaces or so instead of what looks like tab's. Thanks.
#1: Agreed. I mis-alarmed :( #2: See http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.3/fonts5.html. I've seen some CJK fonts ending with ttc under Win2k (but not WinNT). However I noticed that ttmkfdir doesn't seem to generate the font.dir lines correctly for ttc files, i.e., I am getting things like: simsun.ttc -misc-SimSun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0 while according to the webpage above I should get: :1:simsun.ttc -misc-SimSun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0 but this is another issue than what we are are talking about here.
Initial problem reported is now fixed in XFree86 4.1.0-0.9.12 internally, will be in rawhide shortly.