Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
Is there any way to *not* use/disable the {localstatedir}/fontconfig
directory?
We use AFS at Stanford, and I do not want this created or used at all.
I tried making this be /var/cache/fontconfig, but this gives me
permission denied errors on make install, and in any case, I want to
make sure that fontconfig never tries to use whatever directory I set it
to.
First of all, {localstatedir}/fontconfig should only be writable by
root. Only fc-cache creates files in that directory.
If {localstatedir}/fontconfig does not exist or is not writeable, then
fc-cache will write files to the font directories themselves (if it can).
When fontconfig-using applications run and don't find cache information
in {localstatedir}/fontconfig or the font directories, they create a
per-user cache file which lives in that user's home directory.
You have found a bug in fontconfig in that make install fails if it
can't make the {localstatedir}/fontconfig directory. I don't know how
to fix that bug, but I'd welcome patches. You just need to find the
line where it creates the directory and add a -; the complication is
that we go through automake, etc.
pat
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