libXfont

[Russell Shaw]

Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 14:54 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>When i ran X11R7.1 Xserver that i compiled, it exits with:
>>
>>   Fatal server error:
>>   could not open default font 'fixed'
>>
>>
>>So i downloaded:
>>
>>   http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.1/src/lib/libXfont-X11R7.1-1.1.0.tar.bz2
>>
>>and ran:
>>
>>   ./configure
>>   make
>>
>>after export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
>>
>>
>>The make failed because "internal.h" from freetype2 is needed:
>>
>>   freetype2/include/freetype/internal/internal.h
>>
>>
>>Which X11R7.1 package contains freetype2 internal.h?
> 
> 
> If you have freetype 2.2.x, then you want to use libXfont-1.2.0 instead:
> 
> http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/lib/libXfont-1.2.0.tar.bz2
> 
> That version makes libXfont compatible with latest freetype.
> 
> I am not personally sure libXfont will make it see the 'fixed' font, but
> I think that sadly libXfont will still be necessary for at least other
> reasons.

Hi,
Compiling and installing libXfont-1.2 didn't fix the problem. Despite looking
with gdb for hours, i figured out i had font paths in xorg.conf that had no
font files in them.