On 2020-01-26 20:25, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 25.01.2020 um 15:23 schrieb Rodrigo Medina:
>> Hi,
>> Both installations of grace-5.1.24 and grace-5.1.245 are broken.
>> /usr/bin/xmgrace.exe runs but gives the message:
>> --> Broken or incomplete installation - read the FAQ!
>> and then quits.
>
> After reading the FAQ and comparing with a direct build from upstream
> sources, I
> find the reason for that is that the FontDataBase file of the distributed
> package is, indeed, wrong.
>
> Apparently the type1 font directory supplied by grace was replaced by a link
> to
> ghostscript's type1 font repository. But the FontDataBase wasn't updated to
> match this change. This mismatch causes xmgrace to baulk. This change was
> made
> between revisions 5.1.24 and 5.1.25 of the cygwin package, which neatly
> explains
> why 5.1.24 works, but 5.1.25 does not.
>
>> For both versions the link grace-->xmgrace.exe is missing.
>
> This was most likely caused by the cygport file not doing the (rather unusual)
> 'make links' step of the original Makefiles, but rather doing their own
> tweaking. The 'grace' link is only created by 'make links' --- there is no
> 'grace' created in ${GRACE_HOME}/bin. I would consider that an upstream bug,
> albeit it a small one.
/usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc/html/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks
/usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc/html/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/UNIX_Extensions#Minshall.2BFrench_symlinks
Because of potential differences from user customization of symbolic link types
thru the CYGWIN environment variable winsymlinks:{lnk,native,nativestrict} and
file system type dependencies, ranging from lack of any symlink support on
CIFS/Samba to real symlinks on NFS, symlinks are created in Cygwin package
postinstall scripts to honour customizations or work around limitations.
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