On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 23:05 -0400, Patrick Lam wrote: > Matthias Clasen wrote: > > So this means that the file format is not endianness- and > > platform-independent, but contains enough information to load it on > > other platforms ? Does the current loader support loading cache files > > from other platforms ? > > > > I guess I should just test that... > > It can't possibly be platform-independent if it's to be mmapped... > otherwise you end up making another copy of the data before you can use > it, which eliminates the whole space savings benefit. > > I've tested it on multiple platforms before, but please test it again. > It was designed to work on multiple platforms, by keeping one copy per > platform (all the copies are stored in the same file, but in different > sections). > > pat Ok, I have finally gotten around to compile the mmap branch on x86_64, and tried to see how caches work across platforms. I copied /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/fonts.cache-2 from i386 over, and ran fc-cache -f /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/fonts.cache-2 It did in fact update the fonts.cache-2 file, but the result did only have one section for x86_64, the i386 section was gone. Am I missing something ? How am I supposed to create a multi-platform fonts.cache-2 file ? Regards, Matthias
