Compiling Fonts

Kenneth Burke kaburke at gmail.com
Wed Oct 4 17:04:08 PDT 2006


> 2) I am getting the following error when I try to compile the fonts:
> make  install-data-hook
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/root/tmp/x.org/tarballs-font/font/font-adobe-75dpi-X11R7.0-1.0.0'
> /etc/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
> make[2]: execvp: /etc/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi: Permission denied
> make[2]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 127
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/root/tmp/x.org/tarballs-font/font/font-adobe-75dpi-X11R7.0-1.0.0'
> make[1]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/root/tmp/x.org/tarballs-font/font/font-adobe-75dpi-X11R7.0-1.0.0'
> make: *** [install-am] Error 2
>
> Currently, I am compiling the following modules (all in the font directory):
> font-adobe-75dpi-X11R7.0-1.0.0.tar.bz2
> font-bitstream-75dpi-X11R7.0-1.0.0.tar.bz2
> font-bitstream-type1-X11R7.0-1.0.0.tar.bz2
> font-util-X11R7.1-1.0.1.tar.bz2
> font-xfree86-type1-X11R7.0-1.0.0.tar.bz2

The problem was that I had not installed the mkfontscale and mkfontdir modules.

Thanks,
--Kenneth



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