Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 09:39:29 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontconfig madness Message-ID: <20130817163929.GA69757@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20130817114412.44885d21@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <20130812192745.GA80894@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20130817114412.44885d21@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:44:12AM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:27:45 -0700 Steve Kargl wrote: > > I upgraded my freebsd-current system to revision 254098 > > and followed this by deleting all installed ports except > > pkg. After rebuilding all ports, it seems fontconfig has > > lost it mind (or someone made a chnage to where fontconfig > > thinks it should cache fonts). Every time I run acroread8 > > to view a pdf file, acroread8 creates a new fontconfig/ > > in the CWD instead of using ~/.fontconfig. How do I (un)fix > > whatever was changed? > > > > I seem to have the most up-to-date ports. > > > > % pkg info | grep fontconf > > fontconfig-2.10.93,1 An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows > > linux-f10-fontconfig-2.6.0 An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows (Linux Fedora 10) > > % pkg version -vl '<' | grep fontconfig > > I see this too with every linux program that uses fontconfig. After a few hours of poking around, I've believe that I've narrowed the issue down to a decision by the developers of fontconfig to deprecate the default location ~/.fontconfig. I added a /usr/local/etc/fonts/local.conf, which contains <cachedir prefix="~">.fontconfig</cachedir> to recover the old behavior. -- Steve
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