From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG  Sat Aug 17 16:39:42 2013
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115])
 (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
 (No client certificate requested)
 by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95848229;
 Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:39:42 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu)
Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu
 [128.95.76.21])
 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits))
 (No client certificate requested)
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5B4CB2FDD;
 Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:39:42 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (localhost.apl.washington.edu
 [127.0.0.1])
 by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r7HGdUG9069784; 
 Sat, 17 Aug 2013 09:39:30 -0700 (PDT)
 (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu)
Received: (from sgk@localhost)
 by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id r7HGdTYh069783;
 Sat, 17 Aug 2013 09:39:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk)
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 09:39:29 -0700
From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>
Subject: Re: fontconfig madness
Message-ID: <20130817163929.GA69757@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References: <20130812192745.GA80894@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
 <20130817114412.44885d21@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20130817114412.44885d21@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14
Precedence: list
List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining
 <freebsd-gnome.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-gnome>,
 <mailto:freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome>,
 <mailto:freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:39:42 -0000

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