When installing app-misc/cmatrix-1.2a-r1 (and presumably earlier versions), if neither /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc nor /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc exist as directories, then the X11 matrix font file `mtx.pcf' is not installed. Also, the command line switch `-x' can no longer be used. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Backup any fonts in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc 2. Remove these two directories 3. (Re-)emerge app-misc/cmatrix-1.2a-r1 with the X USE flag enabled Actual Results: <snip> >>> Compiling source ... <...> ./configure ... <...> checking for /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc... no checking for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc... no configure: WARNING: *** You do not appear to have an X window fonts directory in the standard *** locations (/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc). The *** mtx.pcf font will not be installed. This means you will probably not *** be able to use the mtx fonts in your x terminals, and hence be unable *** to use the -x command line switch. Sorry about that... configure: creating ./config.status </snip> <snip> $ equery files =app-misc/cmatrix-1.2a-r1 [ Searching for packages matching =app-misc/cmatrix-1.2a-r1... ] * Contents of app-misc/cmatrix-1.2a-r1: /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/cmatrix /usr/lib /usr/lib/X11 /usr/lib/X11/fonts /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc <<< Note that this directory is empty /usr/lib/kbd </snip> <snip> $ ls -al /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 20 18:53 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 20 18:52 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 Dec 20 18:53 fonts.dir $ _ </snip> Expected Results: <snip> >>> Compiling source ... <...> ./configure ... <...> checking for /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc... yes checking for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc... no configure: creating ./config.status </snip> <snip> $ equery files =app-misc/cmatrix-1.2a-r1 [ Searching for packages matching =app-misc/cmatrix-1.2a-r1... ] * Contents of app-misc/cmatrix-1.2a-r1: /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/cmatrix /usr/lib /usr/lib/X11 /usr/lib/X11/fonts /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/mtx.pcf <<< Not empty this time /usr/lib/kbd </snip> <snip> $ ls -al /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc total 40 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 21 13:43 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 20 18:52 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14 Dec 21 13:43 fonts.dir -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24633 Dec 21 13:43 mtx.pcf $ _ </snip> This problem also seems to be a sandbox violation, since ./configure is checking for a directory on the live filesystem. Please correct me if necessary. I've tested and will attach a source code patch and an ebuild patch that fix the problem, at least on my system. Thanks in advance for any assistance. (Please notify me of any typos - I'm typing all this by hand.) -----BEGIN emerge --info----- Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r9 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Timestamp of tree: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical --color=y --with-bdeps=y" FEATURES="candy distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/gnustep /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa bash-completion berkdb bzip2 caps cjk cli cracklib crypt cscope cvs djvu doc dri esd examples expat fbcon flac fontconfig fortran ftp gdbm gif gmp gnutls gpm hardened iconv idn imagemagick imap ipv6 isdnlog javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k libcaca lua lzo maildir midi mmap mudflap mysql ncurses nls nntp nptl nptlonly offensive ogg openexr openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python raw readline reflection session speex spl sse ssl subversion svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb vim-syntax wmf x86 xft xml xorg zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ------END emerge --info------ yuck. I need to clean out some of those variables. -----BEGIN /etc/portage/package.keywords----- app-admin/sudo app-editors/vim app-editors/vim-core app-misc/vlock app-portage/eix games-misc/fortune-mod-gentoo-dev games-rougelike/angband media-gfx/imagemagick media-gfx/splash-themes-gentoo media-gfx/splash-themes-livecd media-gfx/splashutils media-libs/libcaca >=sys-apps/baselayout-2 sys-apps/openrc ------END /etc/portage/package.keywords------ -----BEGIN /etc/portage/package.mask----- <sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.25 >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.26 >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-87.00 ------END /etc/portage/package.mask------ -----BEGIN /etc/portage/package.use----- app-doc/doxygen nodot app-editors/vim vim-pager vim-with-x dev-lang/nqc -usb dev-lang/spidermonkey threadsafe dev-libs/apr-util -mysql dev-python/docutils glep dev-util/subversion extras games-action/moon-buggy -esd mail-mta/netqmail gencertdaily media-gfx/imagemagick fpx gs hdri q32 media-gfx/splashutils fbcondecor media-libs/alsa-lib alisp media-libs/fontconfig -doc media-libs/freetype utils media-libs/giflib rle media-libs/netpbm rle media-libs/urt gs sys-apps/parted device-mapper sys-apps/portage epydoc sys-apps/shadow nousuid sys-devel/gcc objc objc++ objc-gc sys-kernel/gentoo-sources symlink www-client/elinks bittorrent finger gopher ------END /etc/portage/package.use------ If you need any more information, ask me and I'll see what I can do.
Created attachment 176100 [details, diff] This patch forces the X11 font file `mtx.pcf' to be installed. Here's the first patch.
Created attachment 176102 [details, diff] This causes the previous patch to be applied if the X USE flag is enabled Here's the second patch.
Thanks for the report, and for submitting your fix. I think it would be even better if the font were installed in the standard gentoo location; want to update the makefile patch to install the font into /usr/share/fonts/misc ?
Hmmm... I thought X had it's own font directory tree. Seems I missed that in my reading. Thanks for the info. I'll post an updated patch shortly.
Created attachment 176269 [details, diff] Update: This patch forces the X11 font file `mtx.pcf' to be installed into `/usr/share/fonts/misc' Updated the patch to use the default Gentoo font directory.
Created attachment 176270 [details, diff] Update: This patch makes the ebuild apply the previous patch if the X USE flag is enabled Updated to use the default Gentoo font directory
Created attachment 176271 [details, diff] Update: This patch makes the ebuild apply the previous patch if the X USE flag is enabled Gah. That's what I get for posting a patch before testing it. Fixed the `einfo ">>>Running mkfontdir"' line.
Thanks for the new improved patch; applied in CVS.
Thank you for your time and assistance, Wormo.
