source: x/installing/x7legacy.xml@ 124f752c

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY x7legacy-download-http "&xorg-download-http;/">
  <!ENTITY x7legacy-download-ftp  "&xorg-download-ftp;/">
  <!ENTITY x7legacy-size          "1.7 MB">
  <!ENTITY x7legacy-buildsize     "70 MB">
  <!ENTITY x7legacy-time          "0.4 SBU">

  <!ENTITY libXfont-version                "1.5.2">
  <!ENTITY libXfont-md5sum                 "254ee42bd178d18ebc7a73aacfde7f79">

  <!ENTITY bdftopcf-version                "1.0.5">
  <!ENTITY bdftopcf-md5sum                 "53a48e1fdfec29ab2e89f86d4b7ca902">

  <!ENTITY font-adobe-100dpi-version       "1.0.3">
  <!ENTITY font-adobe-100dpi-md5sum        "1347c3031b74c9e91dc4dfa53b12f143">

]>

<sect1 id="xorg7-legacy" xreflabel="Xorg Legacy">
  <?dbhtml filename="x7legacy.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Xorg Legacy</title>

  <indexterm zone="xorg7-legacy">
    <primary sortas="a-xorg7-legacy">Xorg Legacy</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Xorg Legacy</title>

    <para><application>Xorg</application>&apos;s ancestor (X11R1, in 1987) at
    first only provided bitmap fonts, with a tool (<command>bdftopcf</command>)
    to assist in their installation. With the introduction of
    <application>xorg-server-1.19.0</application>
    and <application>libXfont2</application> many people will not need them.
    There are still a few old packages which might require, or benefit from,
    these deprecated fonts and so the following packages are shown here.</para>

    <note>
      <para>
        The font-adobe-100dpi package installs 100 dots per inch versions of
        Courier, Helvetica, New Century Schoolbook and Times fonts. In previous
        versions of BLFS a lot more fonts were installed, and also 75 dots per
        inch versions.
      </para>

      <para revision="sysv">
       Please consult the BLFS-7.10 book at <ulink
       url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.10/x/x7font.html"/>
       if you wish to install any of those other fonts.
      </para>

      <para revision="systemd">
       Please consult the BLFS-7.10 systemd book at <ulink
       url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.10-systemd/x/x7font.html"/>
       if you wish to install any of those other fonts.
      </para>
    </note>

    &lfs7a_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&x7legacy-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&x7legacy-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &x7legacy-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &x7legacy-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &x7legacy-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Xorg Legacy Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="xcursor-themes"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="xmlto"/> with one or more of the
    following: <xref linkend="fop"/>,
    <xref linkend="Links"/>,
    <xref linkend="lynx"/>,
    and <xref linkend="w3m"/> (to generate additional PDF or text
    documentation for the libXfont package).</para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url='&blfs-wiki;/Xorg7Legacy'/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2>
    <title>Downloading Xorg Legacy</title>

    <para>First, create a list of files to be downloaded. This file will also
    be used to verify the integrity of the downloads when complete:</para>

<screen><userinput>cat &gt; legacy.dat &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>&libXfont-md5sum; lib/ libXfont-&libXfont-version;.tar.bz2
&bdftopcf-md5sum; app/ bdftopcf-&bdftopcf-version;.tar.bz2
&font-adobe-100dpi-md5sum; font/ font-adobe-100dpi-&font-adobe-100dpi-version;.tar.bz2</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

    <para>To download the needed files using <application>wget</application>,
    use the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>mkdir legacy &amp;&amp;
cd legacy &amp;&amp;
grep -v '^#' ../legacy.dat | awk '{print $2$3}' | wget -i- -c \
    -B &xorg-download-http;/ &amp;&amp;
grep -v '^#' ../legacy.dat | awk '{print $1 " " $3}' >../legacy.md5 &amp;&amp;
md5sum -c ../legacy.md5</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Xorg Legacy</title>

&as_root;

    <para>First, start a subshell that will exit on error:</para>

<screen><userinput>bash -e</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install all of the packages by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>for package in $(grep -v '^#' ../legacy.md5 | awk '{print $2}')
do
  packagedir=${package%.tar.bz2}
  tar -xf $package
  pushd $packagedir
  case $packagedir in
    libXfont-[0-9]* )
      ./configure $XORG_CONFIG --disable-devel-docs
    ;;
    * )
      ./configure $XORG_CONFIG
    ;;
  esac
  make
  as_root make install
  popd
  rm -rf $packagedir
  as_root /sbin/ldconfig
done</userinput></screen>

    <para>Finally, exit the shell that was started earlier:</para>

<screen><userinput>exit</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><parameter>--disable-devel-docs</parameter>: Disable generation of
    text documentation in the libXfont package if
    <xref linkend="xmlto"/> is installed without a text browser. Omit
    this parameter (or the entire <command>case</command> statement) if a text
    browser is installed.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>bdftopcf</seg>
        <seg>libXfont</seg>
        <seg><envar>$XORG_PREFIX</envar>/share/fonts/100dpi</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="bdftopcf-x7">
        <term><command>bdftopcf</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>converts an X font from Bitmap Distribution Format to Portable
          Compiled Format.</para>
          <indexterm zone="xorg7-legacy bdftopcf-x7">
            <primary sortas="b-bdftopcf">bdftopcf</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libXfont">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libXfont.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is an old version of the X font library.</para>
          <indexterm zone="xorg7-legacy libXfont">
            <primary sortas="c-libXfont">libXfont.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>