I've incorporated TMPDIR. ~/.fonts.conf and ~/.fonts seem to be defined in the global fonts.conf file, not hardcoded, so I've avoided that for now. The new patch is at http://plam.csail.mit.edu/~plam/tmp/fontconfig-050609-tmpdir.diff pat James Cloos wrote: > Cool idea. > > [SIGH. I had my reply all ready to send, and then skimmed through the > patch and discovered that much of it was unnecessary -- the code > already does that.... :) ] > > The environmental TMPDIR is often used to suggest a tmp directory, > but fontconfig should probably also look for its own env. Perhaps > FC_TMPDIR first, then TMPDIR, then /tmp. It already has at least > FC_DEBUG, so FC_TMPDIR -- or FC_TMP -- is a reasonable extension. > > Another possibility is to replicate the idea of ~/.fonts.conf > and ~/.fonts by using ~/.fonts.mmap. If that is not writeable > then you'll either have to fall back to TMPDIR and /tmp, or > fall back to not using an mmap file. > > -JimC
