On Thursday 02 February 2006 18:47, Patrick Lam wrote: > if (!force && FcDirCacheValid (dir) && FcDirCacheHasCurrentArch (dir)) > > checks for cache validity and ought to ensure that -f will try to save > the cache files. Of course it might fail for some other reason. Hmm, indeed. but I want one switch to make sure no corrupt cache files stay around, as we have way too many problems with them. The man page says: Force re-generation of apparently up-to-date cache files, overriding the timestamp checking. > -f works for me. Does it not work for you? What should the semantics > of -f be? Perhaps there should be -f and --really-force, which would > always remove cache files; that's certainly not what we want to give > when we make install. what does make install have to do with it (curious)? Indeed, the normal behaviour whould be to just run "fc-cache" I think. Dirk _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig