[gentoo-user] What provides font 7x14-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz in Gentoo?

[gentoo-user] What provides font 7x14-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz in Gentoo?

[waltdnes]

  Specifically, -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO8859-1,
is loaded from that file.  Here's what lead me to ask...

- I installed xfreecell on a fresh system

- I couldn't get it to start, it complained about not being able to open
  a font, but didn't specify which one (thanks !NOT)

- I did some spelunking in the xfreecell tarball in distfiles.  Right
  near the top of the README file is a statement that says...
  "Make sure there is a font named 7x14."

- "xlsfonts | grep 7x14" didn't find anything

- in Google, I found other occurences of the same error message as I got
  and then asking how to get the "7x14" font

- there were several people reporting that font-misc-misc did the trick
  for them.  But it didn't work for me.

- file /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias showed that "7x14" was an alias
  for -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO8859-1

- The font-misc-misc ebuild appears to install 7x14.pcf.gz, which
  contains Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO10646-1, a
  unicode font

- Out of sheer desperation, I dug through *.pcf.gz files on another
  machine, and copied over 7x14-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz, which finally got
  xfreecell working.

  I'd still like to know which ebuild I should've used, rather than
copying over a binary file.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>

Re: [gentoo-user] What provides font 7x14-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz in Gentoo?

[pk]

On 2011-11-20 03:17, waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote:

> - Out of sheer desperation, I dug through *.pcf.gz files on another
>   machine, and copied over 7x14-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz, which finally got
>   xfreecell working.

I have that installed:

equery b /usr/share/fonts/misc/7x14-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz

gives:

media-fonts/font-misc-misc

HTH

Best regards

Peter K

[gentoo-user] Help; ISO8859-1 fonts not being installed

[waltdnes]

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  At least I know what the problem is, so I'm changing the subject to
more appropriate title.  Thanks to Peter K for confirming that the font
I wanted should have been installed by font-misc-misc.  Just to confirm
my problem...

The only uncommented entry in /etc/locale.gen is en_US ISO-8859-1

[d531][root][~] locale-gen 
* Generating 1 locales (this might take a while) with 1 jobs
*  (1/1) Generating en_US.ISO-8859-1 ...                         [ ok ]
* Generation complete

When I emerge font-misc-misc, ISO8859-1 fonts do not get built.  See
attached build.log.gz.  Note...

> checking whether to build ISO8859-1 fonts... no ### What ?!?!?!
> checking whether to build ISO8859-2 fonts... no
> checking whether to build ISO8859-3 fonts... no
> checking whether to build ISO8859-4 fonts... no
> checking whether to build ISO8859-5 fonts... no
> checking whether to build ISO8859-7 fonts... no
> checking whether to build ISO8859-8 fonts... no
> checking whether to build ISO8859-9 fonts... no
> checking whether to build ISO8859-10 fonts... no
> checking whether to build ISO8859-11 fonts... no
> checking whether to build ISO8859-13 fonts... no
> checking whether to build ISO8859-14 fonts... no
> checking whether to build ISO8859-15 fonts... no
> checking whether to build ISO8859-16 fonts... no
> checking whether to build KOI8-R fonts... no
> checking whether to build JISX0201 fonts... no

  What's going on???

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>

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[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Help; ISO8859-1 fonts not being installed

[waltdnes]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 03:57:02PM -0500, waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote

> When I emerge font-misc-misc, ISO8859-1 fonts do not get built.  See
> attached build.log.gz.  Note...
> 
> > checking whether to build ISO8859-1 fonts... no ### What ?!?!?!
> > checking whether to build ISO8859-2 fonts... no
> > checking whether to build ISO8859-3 fonts... no
> > checking whether to build ISO8859-4 fonts... no
> > checking whether to build ISO8859-5 fonts... no
> > checking whether to build ISO8859-7 fonts... no
> > checking whether to build ISO8859-8 fonts... no
> > checking whether to build ISO8859-9 fonts... no
> > checking whether to build ISO8859-10 fonts... no
> > checking whether to build ISO8859-11 fonts... no
> > checking whether to build ISO8859-13 fonts... no
> > checking whether to build ISO8859-14 fonts... no
> > checking whether to build ISO8859-15 fonts... no
> > checking whether to build ISO8859-16 fonts... no
> > checking whether to build KOI8-R fonts... no
> > checking whether to build JISX0201 fonts... no

  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368335 for the bug and the
work-around.  It is a heavy-handed hack, but at least the font installs,
and xfreecell works.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>